Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:09:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] General filesystem cache |
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, David Howells wrote: > > Here's a patch to add a quasi-filesystem ("CacheFS") that turns a block device > into a general cache for any other filesystem that cares to make use of its > facilities. > > This is primarily intended for use with my AFS filesystem, but I've designed > it such that it needs to know nothing about the filesystem it's backing, and > so it may also be useful for NFS, SMB and ISO9660 for example.
Ok. Sounds good. In fact, it's something I've wanted for a while, since it's also potentially the solution to performance-critical things like virtual filesystems based on revision control logic etc (traditionally done with fake NFS servers).
I did a very very quick scan, and didn't see anything that raised my hackles. But it's late in the 2.6.x game, and as a result I'm not going to apply it until I get a lot of feedback from actual users too.
Linus
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