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SubjectRe: cachefs module for linux?
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > squid does the same in a far more elegant way as we implemented for
> > the Sony Motion Pictures site. NFS is the wrong solution and the wrong
> > protocol for web caching.
>
> True, but Squid didn't exist, or wasn't well known in 1996.

It existed and was widely known (formerly the Harvester Cache). I ran it
at Fuller Seminary in 1996.

> 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.


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