<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, I'm using webmail today and didn't notice the list defaulted to replying to > you.
It should be the default on ALL lists. Lists that reply to the list are Bad because it makes it hard for a user to actually respond privately when a private response in warranted. > At this time I don't have any partitions available and don't want to have to create > them. RTFM. > How big a hit does no cache give you? You cannot run with "no cache". You must run with _some_ cache, even if it's a small memory cache. It means you'll have to go off to the network on every request that isn't in the cache, which means all reads will be network-latent as opposed to local-disk-latent. OTOH, it depends how much cache thrashing you expect on your system. -derek > >> >> From: Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2004/01/02 Fri PM 12:29:43 EST >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS >> >> Please CC openafs-info on all replies! >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Okay, that lets OpenAFS out for me then. >> >> I don't see what's so hard about creating an ext2/3 partition for your >> afs cache. You should have a dedicated cache partition anyways. >> Worst case you could use the -memcache option to afsd and skip the >> persistent disk cache. >> >> > Why the requirement for ext2/3 for cache? Why not use whatever file >> > system is there? >> >> Because it needs direct access to the inodes via iget(); this works >> for ext2/3, it does not work for reiserfs (or xfs, I believe) because >> they (well, reiser for sure) breaks the user-space inode abstraction. >> >> > Thank you. >> >> -derek >> >> -- >> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory >> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) >> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
