I would be trying this, for the exact same reason (I run several 32-64 node clusters with the root filesystem on nfs), except I'm trying to get ready for Supercomputing 2004 ;) If I set up a bitkeepr/svn/tla tree that contains just the cachefs+afs+nfs patches, would anyone be interested in using it, and/or assisting in maintaining it? Or do the developers prefer to just do patches? On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:48:43PM +0200, hanzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Dear list, > > anybody had any success in creating minimal patch against a mainstream > kernel leading to working disk-cached NFS? > > If I got it right, whole 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 is these 741 patches away from > the mainstream: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/patch-series > > I would like to have disk-cached NFS together with bproc (process > migration from cluster head node to slave nodes, see > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bproc-users) and I guess > some of those 741 patches would conflict with bproc much more than my > knowledge would allow to fix. > > Therefore I would like to reduce 741 to the bare minimum first - and > maybe somebody on this list attempted this before? > > > Persistent file caching on local disks of cluster slave machines (with > simple NFS master) is my long-term dream with no clean linux solution > so far - so many thanks to all of you working on cachefs and related > NFS tweaks! > > Best Regards > > Vaclav Hanzl > > -- > Linux-cachefs mailing list > Linux-cachefs@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cachefs -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' hozer@xxxxxxxxx Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz
