As I finally managed to run fscache on debian I want to share my debs with you: http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~hkaelber/fscache/ You need a running debian-etch-system in order to use them. They consist of 4 parts: linux-image-2.6.18-rc6-fsc14_custom.1_i386.deb: patched git-commit 10387e5eb45c6e48d67102b88229f5bc6037461c to which patchset14 applies. The config is (if I remember correctly) an oldconfig of a custom-Debian-kernel with the necessary fsc-options set. libc6*_2.3.999.2-12_i386.deb: glibc 2.3.999-backport from testing nfs-utils-mount_1.0.9-6_i386.deb: stolen from the nfs-utils-rpm from steved's page; I only took the mount-relevant parts cachefilesd_0.6-1_i386.deb: from cachefilesd-rpm of steved's page, with (quick-n-dirty) adjusted init-script. There is no postinst-script, run update-rc.d if needed You might have problems running this kernel on SATA-machines. I could not use it there because of: /--- ata2: SATA max UDMA/133, 156250000 secrots: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata2: port is slow to respond ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata2: softreset failed, retrying in 5 sec ---/ Usage: ====== /--- dpkg -i libc6_2.3.999.2-12_i386.deb cachefilesd_0.6-1_i386.deb linux-image-2.6.18-rc6-fsc14_custom.1_i386.deb nfs-utils-mount_1.0.9-6_i386.deb mkdir /var/fscache tune2fs -o user_xattr [DEVICE_BELOW_VAR_CACHE] # update bootloader-conf reboot /etc/init.d/cachefilesd start # if it "...FAILED" check dmesg mount -t nfs -o fsc NFS_SERVER:/NFS_VOLUME /mnt/nfs ---/ Thanks to Shaya Potter for the debian hints, to steved for the rpms (the first version that worked for me) and -- first of all -- to david and steve for developping! I am watching the list for months. Holger.
