From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Oct 30 09:49:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA05484 for fs-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:49:50 -0800 Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA05479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:49:43 -0800 Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA02525; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 19:49:29 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 19:49:29 +0200 Message-Id: <199510301749.TAA02525@silver.sms.fi> From: Petri Helenius To: "Charles F. Randall" Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Cache FS? (willing to help) In-Reply-To: <9510301043.ZM10844@vislab19.dmacc.cc.ia.us> References: <9510301043.ZM10844@vislab19.dmacc.cc.ia.us> Sender: owner-fs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Charles F. Randall writes: > I posted the following message to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and got an > underwhelming response. I'm wondering if there are others interested in > contributing to such a project. > > While I probably don't know enough about FreeBSD internals to lead such an > effort, I would be willing to help. > [clipclip] > In essence, you create a fixed-size "cache file" on a local disk and > then point cachefs at the filesystem you wish to cache (most likely > NFS and/or CDROM). > > Are there any plans in FreeBSD for anything like this? > Why bother? If you have a slow network, you buy a faster network, if your cdrom is slow, you buy a faster cdrom, not more disk space. In my opinion this is not cost-effective because you cannot get definite performance impact. Pete