On Feb 7, 2008 12:56 PM, Tim Spriggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derrick Brashear wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 12:16 PM, Brian Sebby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Just wondering, has anyone used ZFS for the AFS cache backend? > >> > > > > You can't. > > > > We could fix that by doing what we do for the disk cache on Leopard for > > Solaris. > > > > No one has yet. I don't know what the kernel API for opening files by > > path (vnode_open equivalent) looks like but that's basically all you > > need. > > > However, you can create a zvol and put a UFS filesystem on the zvol. > Then the cache can go onto the UFS filesystem (which resides on a > zpool). This type of solution is more attractive to some than others.
it is, but, the solution i mention will actually make us filesystem agnostic for cache and quite possibly avoids kernel locking issues. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
