As a side note, Irix and Solaris provide cachefs for this purpose and use
NFS filesystems as examples (others examples may include CD-ROM, etc).
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: David Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 8:26 AM
To: Attila Nagy
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disk based file system cache
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:07:00PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> I'm just curious: is it possible to set up an NFS server and a client
> where the client has very big (28 GB maximum for FreeBSD?) swap area on
> multiple disks and caches the NFS exported data on it?
> This could save a lot of bandwidth on the NFS server and also redues load
> on that.
This would really be more than NFS is supposed to do. There other
filesystems which can do this sort of thing - I think Coda might
be one of them.
David.
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