On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906080958540.28339-100000@cyrix200.lameter.com>, Chr
> istoph Lameter writes:
> +-----
> | > cachefs comes in really handy, too, setting up "diskless" machines with
> | > nothing but NFS cache and swap space.
> |
> | Just allow NFS to use the standard Linux cache more efficiently via a
> | mount parameter and all should be well. cachefs is the wrong solution.
> +--->8
>
> Err, no. First, you assume that the Linux cache can be arbitrarily large
> (or at least that enough memory is available to cache reasonable working
> sets); second, cachefs is persistent across reboots, which the Linux buffer
> cache cannot be.
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