From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 24 7:26: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6697437B403 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 07:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 24 Sep 2001 15:25:57 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:25:56 +0100 From: David Malone To: Attila Nagy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk based file system cache Message-ID: <20010924152556.A90833@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20010918165302.V17360-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010918165302.V17360-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>; from bra@fsn.hu on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:07:00PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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