On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 23:20 -0400, Rob wrote: > Network file storage over nfs? The general linux VFS will use real > memory to do file system caching, but i don't think it will use swap > for caching. I would think you need to do some hacking to make this > work... but I would love to be proved wrong. Solaris nfs has a caching > option built in.... looking through man nfs(5) on linux, there are some > buffers and what not that you can increase to get better throughput, > but no data caching. You could try AFS :-)
Alas, this is all being shared using Samba, since Windows clients need access to it, too, and I was decidedly unimpressed last time I tried to set up NFS for Windows. However, if I can do caching with main memory, that'll work, too, for my purposes. -DMZ
