Messages in this thread |  | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:07:52 +1000 (EST) | Subject | Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed") |
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On September 10, marcus@cendio.se wrote: > neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown) writes: > > > SUNs "cachefs" concept can be used to improve read performance by > > caching a lot more of server-data on the client. That could be > > implemented for Linux, but I don't know of anyone with serious plans. > > cachefs sucks. It doesn't seem to cache stat(2) information. > Doing ls -F in a ~100-entries directory takes several seconds over > a link with 50ms round-trip time.
Well, I said "concept" not "implementation", but I suspect that Solaris cachefs does cache stat information. Maybe you just need to increase the timeouts for the attribute cache.
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