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    Linus> Now, admittedly maybe the user-space deamon approach is
    Linus> crap, and what we really want is to have some way to cache
    Linus> network stuff on the disk directly from the kernel, ie just
    Linus> implement a real mapping/page-indexed cachefs that people
    Linus> could mount and use together with different network
    Linus> filesystems.

    Cachefs has been on our most wanted list for a while now in Linux
biocomputing..  Using NFS for huge datasets with cachefs on Solaris is
a breeze and Linux currently offers no alternative
(well... coda/intermezzo are close but no close enough).  A general
purpose cachefs would be beautiful.

                                                Patrick Audley


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