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SubjectRe: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches
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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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