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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