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On 06.11, Hirokazu Takahashi wrote: > Hello, > > I think the main benfit of cachefs is on NFS servers. Cachefs of > clients can help them to reduce their loads. We know many clients > may share one huge NFS server. > (e.g. Streaming systems which contents may be extremly huge.) > Tha main use of cachefs I've seen was Sun's network-booting workstations. We had a bunch of old suns (IPX, that was a 68k), with small disks used to cache / , /usr and so on from an nfs server. You have the benefits of just one centralized install and the ones from local storage for more used files.... -- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es> \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.21-rc7-jam1 (gcc 3.3 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3-1mdk)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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