From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:10:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:10:56 -0400 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:56564 "EHLO executor.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:10:55 -0400 To: Troy Benjegerdes Cc: David Howells , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS filesystem for Linux (2/2) In-Reply-To: Message from Troy Benjegerdes of "Sun, 06 Oct 2002 11:49:46 CDT." <20021006164946.GD878@altus.drgw.net> User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:16:32 +0100 Message-ID: <8908.1033982192@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> From: David Howells Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Hrrm, well, I'm in the middle of deploying AFS (moving away from NFS), and > one of the ideas I toyed with was how to get a diskless AFS client. (yeah, > that sounds silly at first, 2GB disks used to be large, not systems with 2GB > of ram are common.) A mostly kernel-based implementation of AFS would be > quite usefull for this. (and the remaining bits could be in an initramfs) My client will be able to run without using any cache other than the pagecache (as it does now). David