Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:34:24 +0800 From: ProAce <proace@gmail.com> To: "Rick Macklem" <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to cache nfs file in local disk Message-ID: <737a6d270809031834v54bab15bwb535b126cd36f38e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0809031027170.29474@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <737a6d270809012309w2be16ba3s8937623841107557@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0809031027170.29474@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca>
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> > 2008/9/3, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>: > > > Since no one else has answered, I toss out "None that I am aware of". > > I am planning on doing some work caching files on local disk when they > are delegated to the client, but that will be NFSv4 specific and at least > next summer before it is available. I also consider it experimental work, > so it may never end up usable in a near production environment. > > To be honest, for LAN environments, ny hunch is that local disk caching > will only help if the client keeps accessing the same files over and over > again. But that's just a hunch at this point. > > rick > > Bingo! Currently, the bigest problem for me is client access some files over and over again.
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