Personally I agree completely with the EOF of the current implementation, having been directly involved in supporting it in Sun Service and sustaining.
However I disagree that we no longer need such functionality. I also find it quite sadly ironic that other operating systems are only now starting to implement something like cachefs just we Solaris is about to pull the rug out from underneath it. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CacheFS NFS+CacheFS+Kerberos was a good competitor for AFS if we drop the CacheFS part we only have base NFSv4+Kerberos and IMO that level of caching is not good enough. I believe we need a persistent (ie local disk/ssd) cache integrated with NFSv4 before this EOF can be approved. However if there is business evidence that CacheFS is no longer required functionality (rather than no longer used because it doesn't work with NFSv4 or is buggy) I'd like to see that. Basically from an architecture view point this EOF leaves us with a gap that I think needs to be filled. -- Darren J Moffat
