Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:22:53 +0200 From: Peter Wullinger <Peter.Wullinger@stud.fh-regensburg.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk based file system cache Message-ID: <20010924132253.A2599@rfhpc8320.fh-regensburg.de> In-Reply-To: <20010918165302.V17360-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>; from bra@fsn.hu on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:07:00PM %2B0200 References: <20010918165302.V17360-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:07:00PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just curious: is it possible to set up an NFS server and a client > where the client has very big (28 GB maximum for FreeBSD?) swap area on > multiple disks and caches the NFS exported data on it? > This could save a lot of bandwidth on the NFS server and also redues load > on that. > I'm not familiar with nfsiod(was it?), but I think, that this NFS run in kernel mode and uses kernel malloc(9) memory for caching. And kernel memory is quite different from user space memory ... Correct me, if I'm wrong. Even if it worked, you will possibly get REAL problems due to synchronisation problems. If your client machines are Linux, Solaris or (;-)) FreeBSD, you can setup CODA from the ports collection, it's much more suitable for this. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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