On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:31:26 +0100 Kai Krakow wrote:
> Am Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:02:47 +0300
> schrieb Andrew Savchenko <[email protected]>:
> 
> > I have thoughts about caching NFS using filescached, but limited
> > durability of the drive (400 TBW warranty for 512 GB size) restrains
> > me here. Probably I'll use it for caching only in exceptional cases
> > (e.g. slow remote mounts like AFS), but with 64 GB RAM I doubt I'll
> > need additional NVMe-based caching, at least for now, with time
> > this may change of course.
> 
> Take note, that filescached may not support every filesystem for cache
> storage - e.g. btrfs cannot be used for it currently. I haven't looked
> at other options yet.

cachefilesd needs user_xattr feature, both ext4 and f2fs have it.

Btrfs people claim that fs lacks this option because functionality
is enabled by default:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg06814.html

But I haven't tested this myself.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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