From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS using CacheFS Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:30:39 +0200 Sender: linux-cachefs-bounces@redhat.com Message-ID: <1097508639.20033.12.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <4161B664.70109@RedHat.com> <41661950.5070508@tequila.co.jp> <41667865.2000804@RedHat.com> <20041011142329.GJ4072@admingilde.org> Reply-To: Linux filesystem caching discussion list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: linux-kernel , Linux filesystem caching discussion list , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Steve Dickson , Clemens Schwaighofer Return-path: To: Martin Waitz In-Reply-To: <20041011142329.GJ4072@admingilde.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linux-cachefs-bounces@redhat.com List-ID: P=E5 m=E5 , 11/10/2004 klokka 16:23, skreiv Martin Waitz: > hi :) >=20 > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:22:13AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > The 'fscache' flag will be coming along with the nfs4 support, since > > nfs4 mounting code does not have an open (unused) mounting flag.... >=20 > is such a flag even neccessary? > The way I see fscache is that its operations will be no-ops anyway if y= ou > haven't mounted any backing cache. You may not want to run cachefs on *all* your NFS partitions. It will slow you down on those partitions that have lots of cache contention. That said, David & co.: why did you choose not to use something similar to the Solaris syntax for cachefs? The "layered filesystem" syntax has the advantage that it would avoid entirely the need to change the NFS mount syntax, and would make it easier to port cachefs to cifs etc. Cheers, Trond -- Linux-cachefs mailing list Linux-cachefs@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cachefs