From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [Linux-cachefs] Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:57:18 -0500 Message-ID: <20051115085718.GA15464@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20051114150347.1188499e.akpm@osdl.org> <1132010253.8802.20.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Linux filesystem caching discussion list Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1132010253.8802.20.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:17:33PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I think we need an NFS implementation and some numbers which make it > > interesting. Or at least, some AFS numbers, some explanation as to why > > they can be extrapolated to NFS and some degree of interest from the NFS > > guys. Ditto CIFS. > > There is a lot of interest from the HPC community for this sort of thing > on NFS. Basically, it will help server scalability for projects that > have large numbers of read-only files accessed by large numbers of > clients. > > AFAIK, Steve Dickson (steved@redhat.com) is working on the NFS hooks for > FS-Cache. Well, I'm not in the HPC community, but I have a lot of interest in seeing cachefs + nfs working in the upstream kernel. Jeff, misses cachefs from the Solaris days