Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:37:18 -0600 From: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> To: 'David Malone' <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Disk based file system cache Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828F475@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com>
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As a side note, Irix and Solaris provide cachefs for this purpose and use NFS filesystems as examples (others examples may include CD-ROM, etc). Charles -----Original Message----- From: David Malone [mailto:dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 8:26 AM To: Attila Nagy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk based file system cache 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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