Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility

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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 ([email protected]) is working on the NFS hooks for
FS-Cache.

Cheers,
  Trond

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