Re: cachefs module for linux?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 19:38:00 +0200


Christoph Lameter wrote:
> squid does the same in a far more elegant way as we implemented for
> the Sony Motion Pictures site. NFS is the wrong solution and the wrong
> protocol for web caching.

Agreed.

> I thought NFS already did some caching?

Yes but only in memory, not on the disk.
However CODA does do local disk cacheing.

Perhaps cachefs could be constructed by pointing a local CODA server at
the NFS-mounted directory, and mounting the CODA filesystem locally :-)

-- Jamie

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