From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: nfs performance problem
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:56:07 -0800
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To: "'Matt Heaton'" <admin@0catch.com>
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> Cachefs will help quite a lot in my opinion because it 
> doesn't just store
> the files in RAM,
> it uses the hard drive.  So if you have an NFS client with an 
> extra 5 gig
> that you can
> designate as cache then reads to the NFS server will go down 
> DRAMATICALLY as
> it will hit local cache on the NFS clients drive.

yes, that's true, until you consider that without something
like v4 delegation, the client still has to contact the server
to keep its cache up to date.

matt, you really do want a faster server in this case.


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