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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/45] Permit filesystem local caching [ver #41]
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:47 -0800
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:41:39 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and AFS.

For performance reasons, one assumes.  Are there any other reasons?  Disconnected
operation, anything like that?

We would want to know the performance benefits in some detail before even 
looking at the code, no?  Maybe they're in here somewhere but I missed it..