From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 24 9:38:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bdr-xcon.matchlogic.com (mail.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED38237B406 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:37:19 -0600 Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828F475@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: 'David Malone' , Attila Nagy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Disk based file system cache Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:37:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 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