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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:12:44 PST, Andrew Morton said:

> Is a new fs needed?  Is it not possible to use an existing filesystem of the
> user's choice for local caching?

It's sort of like a loopback mount - you need a backing store which could be
on an ext3 or ramfs or whatever, and you need the user-visible front end side
of things, which manages the backing store and fetches blocks from AFS/NFS/etc.

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