Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264606AbTFKWNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:13:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264609AbTFKWNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:13:23 -0400 Received: from [212.97.163.22] ([212.97.163.22]:58346 "EHLO aneto.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264606AbTFKWNU (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:13:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:26:51 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Hirokazu Takahashi Cc: ecki@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cachefs on linux Message-ID: <20030611222651.GA2712@werewolf.able.es> References: <200306101515.53464.rob@landley.net> <20030611.201218.66717787.taka@valinux.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20030611.201218.66717787.taka@valinux.co.jp>; from taka@valinux.co.jp on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 13:12:18 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1105 Lines: 21 On 06.11, Hirokazu Takahashi wrote: > Hello, > > I think the main benfit of cachefs is on NFS servers. Cachefs of > clients can help them to reduce their loads. We know many clients > may share one huge NFS server. > (e.g. Streaming systems which contents may be extremly huge.) > Tha main use of cachefs I've seen was Sun's network-booting workstations. We had a bunch of old suns (IPX, that was a 68k), with small disks used to cache / , /usr and so on from an nfs server. You have the benefits of just one centralized install and the ones from local storage for more used files.... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.21-rc7-jam1 (gcc 3.3 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3-1mdk)) - 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/