On 26 April, 2012 - Jim Klimov sent me these 1,6K bytes:

> Which reminds me: older Solarises used to have a nifty-looking
> (via descriptions) cachefs, apparently to speed up NFS clients
> and reduce traffic, which we did not get to really use in real
> life. AFAIK Oracle EOLed it for Solaris 11, and I am not sure
> it is in illumos either.
>
> Does caching in current Solaris/illumos NFS client replace those
> benefits, or did the project have some merits of its own (like
> caching into local storage of client, so that the cache was not
> empty after reboot)?

It had its share of merits and bugs.

/Tomas
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