From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269848AbUH0BEd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:04:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269844AbUH0BAk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:00:40 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:23175 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269848AbUH0Axc (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:53:32 -0400 Message-ID: <412E85FD.5050801@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:53:17 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Howells CC: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, steved@redhat.com, dwmw2@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] CacheFS - general filesystem cache References: <17777.1093566183@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <17777.1093566183@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Howells wrote: > Hi Linus, Andrew, > > I've packaged my generic filesystem cache filesystem into patches and also > produced patches for my AFS filesystem to use it. Work is also in progress to > alter the NFS client use this interface too, and I think the ISO9660 > filesystem could also benefit. whee :) IMHO cachefs is a big deal particularly now that the NFSv4 delegation code has been merged. For those unfamiliar with the changes from NFSv3 -> NFSv4, one of the many nice features of v4 is that it has sane caching. A file can be "delegated" to the client, such that, the client has complete control over the file including caching. Sorta like a lease. Great for cachefs, IOW. :) > (7) cachefs-afs-2681mm4.diff > > This changes my AFS client so that it can make use of cachefs. Yay, a user :) Jeff