Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262444AbTFJIPv (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:15:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262451AbTFJIPv (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:15:51 -0400 Received: from userk185.dsl.pipex.com ([62.188.58.185]:33432 "HELO userk185.dsl.pipex.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262444AbTFJIPu (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:15:50 -0400 From: "Sean Hunter" Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:29:30 +0000 To: Shawn Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer , "Leonardo H. Machado" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: cachefs on linux Message-ID: <20030610082930.GA26777@uncarved.com> Mail-Followup-To: Sean Hunter , Shawn , Matthias Schniedermeyer , "Leonardo H. Machado" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <20030609204249.GA11373@citd.de> <1055191776.13435.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1055191776.13435.6.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 24 On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:49:36PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > Well, it's a nice way to simulate writing on r/o filesystems IIRC. Like > mounting a cdrom then writing to it, but you're not. > > Was that was this was? Anyway, linux also does not have unionFS. If it > was that big of a deal, someone would write it. As it is, it's a > whizbang no one cares about enough. Its particularly handy for fast read-only NFS stuff. We have thousands of linux hosts and distributing software to all of them is a pain. With cachefs with NFS as the "back" filesystem, you push to the masters and the clients get the changes over NFS and then store them in their local cache so your software distribution nightmare becomes no problem at all. Clients read off the local disk if they can, but fetch over NFS as required. You can tune the cache size on all of the client machines so they can cache more or less of the most recently used NFS junk on its local disk. Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/