Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:25:56 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk based file system cache Message-ID: <20010924152556.A90833@walton.maths.tcd.ie> 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: > 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. This would really be more than NFS is supposed to do. There other filesystems which can do this sort of thing - I think Coda might be one of them. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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