Re: Linux needs a disk cache ... yes really :-)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:35:38 +0100 (BST)


> A nice point for the left hand case is that these pages could stay in the
> cache for days (weeks?) if it's large enough ... who needs a fast CDROM ?

Local caching is an even huger win on NFS than on CDROM. Its something I've
wanted for years but not had time to write (the mm layer is scary 8))

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