Hi, I suffer from a very slow NFS4 setup here at our university. The exact cause is not known (might be related to our complex Kerberos/Active Directory/... setup), but I thought I'd give FS-Cache a try in case that helps. However, /proc/fs/fscache/histogram stays empty and I only see zeros in /proc/fs/fscache/stats (except Cookies: idx=2 of course). My main question now is whether I can use fs-cache at all, when I am using krb5 to make sure that not even root is able to access the files in my home directory? I thought that /could/ be a problem, although OTOH the data does pass through the kernel, so expecting the kernel to be able to cache it is not totally out of the question either, is it? Since our setup is fairly unusual, I figured it could be possible that the existing HowTos [1] do not contain an "in case you're using idmapd/gssd, caching is not possible" yet even if that's be the case. A few details on the state of things: I am using Gentoo's 2.6.31-gentoo-r6- default linux sources, with everything fscache-related (except the _DEBUG options) enabled, cachefilesd version 0.10.1 is running, and I do see nice messages in the syslog: ... Sep 8 15:48:22 kogspc46 cachefilesd[4848]: About to bind cache Sep 8 15:48:22 kogspc46 cachefilesd[4848]: Bound cache Sep 8 15:48:22 kogspc46 cachefilesd[5140]: Daemon Started Sep 8 15:48:22 kogspc46 klogd: [ 30.735580] FS-Cache: Cache "mycache" added (type cachefiles) Sep 8 15:48:22 kogspc46 klogd: [ 30.735584] CacheFiles: File cache on sda2 registered Sep 8 15:48:22 kogspc46 cachefilesd[5140]: Scan complete Sep 8 15:48:28 kogspc46 Service nfsmount starting ... Also, I have mounted the NFS partition with the 'fsc' option as one can see in the output of 'mount': rzfilesrv1:/informatik on /informatik type nfs4 \ (rw,sec=krb5,fsc,clientaddr=...,addr=...) However, I don't see content in /proc/fs/fscache/ appearing, and the cache directory does not seem to be populated (is there a good way to check, since there seem to be 177Mb used on that partition according to df, maybe xattrs?). BTW: I have dedicated a whole partition to the cache, so AFAICS I should eventually try using cachefs instead of cachefilesd, but I wanted to follow documented procedures first. Have a nice day, Hans [1] I was looking http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/CacheFS, for example. -- Linux-cachefs mailing list Linux-cachefs@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cachefs
