From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 17:29:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29557 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netcom22.netcom.com (sauber@netcom22.netcom.com [192.100.81.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA29549 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:29:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (sauber@localhost) by netcom22.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id RAA18928; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:28:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:28:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Soren Dossing X-Sender: sauber@netcom22 To: Cliff Addy cc: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clientside nfs caching In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Cliff Addy wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > > > Soren Dossing asked: > > > Does any applications exist for freebsd, that can do client side caching > > > of file systems mounted with nfs or similar service. I will consider any > > > free as well as commercial solutions. > > > > Good God I hope not. This is most certainly a recipe for disaster. > > You're far better off getting a faster server or a faster network. > > No, client-side caching is standard behavior for nfs. I think you're > confused because it often called caching, when really it's just read/write > buffering. Under FreeBSD it's handled by nfsiod and is usually > automatically launched. What I had in mind was actually something more like AFS (Andrew File System). I need access over internet to a fileserver with source codes. NFS might me OK... wil nfsiod cache/spool as much as, say 500MB at a time? Soren