Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:01:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: cachefs module for linux? |
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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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