On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:17:33PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > 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. I'm currently running a root filesystem for a cluster using the OpenAFS client for precisely this reason. And in regards to (other) comments about code size, if you think this is big, take a look at the OpenAFS kernel module.
