From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFS has caching?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:51:21 +0100
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On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:22 +0800, howard chen wrote:
> I have around 100 files, currently NFS shared among 5 servers, all
> servers access the file quite frequently, e.g. 10 hits per second per
> server.
> 
> I cannot afford to rync since i want the delay of write as small as
> possible, e.g. less than 1 second.
> 
> 
> I want to know, since the file will be accessed quite frequent, does
> NFS has build-in caching functions that if files are not modified, it
> will not try to fetch from the network?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_a8

Trond


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