Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:59:01 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] General filesystem cache |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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've been pushing David to keep it general enough to work for NFS, which has been a long term goal of mine... (and it appears my nagging worked)
Thanks David!
Jeff
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