Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:24:19 +0000 |
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Muntz, Daniel <Dan.Muntz@netapp.com> wrote:
> AFS was designed to support local disk cache, so with callbacks you can get a > consistent system.
It's less the callbacks and more the data version number that's important.
> I'll ass-u-me that Linux flavors of AFS have callbacks.
They do.
> It should be possible to *integrate* NFSv4.x with FS-Cache similarly (i.e., I > don't think you could drop it in as a 'black-box' without breaking something, > unless you explicitly build an independent proxy cache server).
NFSv4 has equivalents of both the data version number and callbacks.
David
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