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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Pull request for FS-Cache, including NFS patches
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:20:05 +0000
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Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> > > AFS was designed to support local disk cache, so with callbacks you can
> > > get a consistent system.
> > 
> > It's less the callbacks and more the data version number that's important.
> 
> Maybe for consistency, but for the performance benefits of local disk
> caching, I believe the callbacks are pretty important.

Indeed, but he said "so with callbacks you can get a _consistent_ system".

David