Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756118AbYKUI3u (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:29:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753581AbYKUI3J (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:29:09 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:32985 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756305AbYKUI3H (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:29:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/45] Permit filesystem local caching [ver #41] Message-Id: <20081121002847.c8fe7aef.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20081120144139.10667.75519.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20081120144139.10667.75519.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 14 On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:41:39 +0000 David Howells wrote: > These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and AFS. For performance reasons, one assumes. Are there any other reasons? Disconnected operation, anything like that? We would want to know the performance benefits in some detail before even looking at the code, no? Maybe they're in here somewhere but I missed it.. -- 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/