On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I think we need an NFS implementation and some numbers which make it > interesting. Or at least, some AFS numbers, some explanation as to why > they can be extrapolated to NFS and some degree of interest from the NFS > guys. Ditto CIFS. There is a lot of interest from the HPC community for this sort of thing on NFS. Basically, it will help server scalability for projects that have large numbers of read-only files accessed by large numbers of clients. AFAIK, Steve Dickson (steved@xxxxxxxxxx) is working on the NFS hooks for FS-Cache. Cheers, Trond
