On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:54:34 +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote: >> 4- Faster synchronous writes. > Y E S. > This is the only point I fully aggree on. We've had severe problems with > brain-dead software (Firefox, Dropbox) performing tons of synchronous 4K > writes (on a bs=16K FFS) which nearly killed us until I wrote Dotcache > (http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/ef/dotcache) and we set XDG_CACHE_HOME > to point to local storage.
Nice. We run unburden <https://github.com/xtaran/unburden-home-dir> at work on debian desktops, cutting login-to-desktop times for nfs homes from 1 min to a few seconds... Since your average Linux App Programmer will work from a fast local disk, treating session-local files consistently will take a while, I guess. hauke -- Hauke Fath <[email protected]> Ernst-Ludwig-Straße 15 64625 Bensheim Germany
