Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:07:04 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: cachefs module for linux? |
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > cachefs comes in really handy, too, setting up "diskless" machines with > > nothing but NFS cache and swap space.
> Just allow NFS to use the standard Linux cache more efficiently via a > mount parameter and all should be well. cachefs is the wrong solution.
Please define "standard Linux cache."
cachefs is used in situations where the cacheable data set size is too large for the buffer cache.
As for using a mount parameter, that would be an NFS-specific solution. What about caching large smbfs filesystems, for instance? Or coda, or some other network fs?
Jeff
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