Re: [Linux-cachefs] Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility

[Jeff Garzik]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:17:33PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I think we need an NFS implementation and some numbers which make it
> > interesting.  Or at least, some AFS numbers, some explanation as to why
> > they can be extrapolated to NFS and some degree of interest from the NFS
> > guys.   Ditto CIFS.
> 
> There is a lot of interest from the HPC community for this sort of thing
> on NFS. Basically, it will help server scalability for projects that
> have large numbers of read-only files accessed by large numbers of
> clients.
> 
> AFAIK, Steve Dickson (steved@xxxxxxxxxx) is working on the NFS hooks for
> FS-Cache.

Well, I'm not in the HPC community, but I have a lot of interest in seeing
cachefs + nfs working in the upstream kernel.

	Jeff, misses cachefs from the Solaris days



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