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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:28:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Soren Dossing <sauber@netcom.com>
To:        Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>
Cc:        Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: clientside nfs caching
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.95.970407172216.15347A-100000@netcom22>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970404114051.5836C-100000@federation.addy.com>

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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




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