Re: cachefs module for linux?

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:04:02 +0200


Hi!

> > 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 :-)

No. AFAIK coda server is unable to export existing tree. Coda likes to
do filesystem itself.

Pavel

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