On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:31:51PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I confess that I didn't realize we lacked client side caching in our > NFSv4. I thought client side caching was one of the significant > benefits that NFSv4 brought to the table (mainly to compete with the > likes of AFS and DFS).
Let's be precise. The NFSv4 client caches plenty, just not on long-term local storage (which is what cachefs was for). > If we don't have client side caching in NFSv4, then I too worry that the > loss of functionality will leave us with a potentially significant > architectural hole. It's a small gap. I think where it really matters one might use ZFS with iSCSI vdevs and a local L2ARC device. > Again, for folks on local networks, the network may not be the > bottleneck, but with VPNs and similar technologies increasing the global > reach of corporate networks, I think there is still a real business case > for client side caching. Yes. Nico --
