From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] General filesystem cache Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:59:01 -0400 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F195CB5.6050407@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Howells , Trond Myklebust , Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:63411 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270223AbTGSOoP (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:44:15 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, David Howells wrote: > >>Here's a patch to add a quasi-filesystem ("CacheFS") that turns a block device >>into a general cache for any other filesystem that cares to make use of its >>facilities. >> >>This is primarily intended for use with my AFS filesystem, but I've designed >>it such that it needs to know nothing about the filesystem it's backing, and >>so it may also be useful for NFS, SMB and ISO9660 for example. > > > Ok. Sounds good. In fact, it's something I've wanted for a while, since > it's also potentially the solution to performance-critical things like > virtual filesystems based on revision control logic etc (traditionally > done with fake NFS servers). I've been pushing David to keep it general enough to work for NFS, which has been a long term goal of mine... (and it appears my nagging worked) Thanks David! Jeff