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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!uchinews!netsrv2.spss.com!news.netins.net!news.dmacc.cc.ia.us!news.dmacc.cc.ia.us!not-for-mail From: cfr@dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Anything like IRIX cachefs for caching NFS? (and other filesystems) Date: 27 Oct 1995 11:21:56 -0500 Organization: Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa (USA) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <46r0v4$37f@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us> Reply-To: "Charles F. Randall" <crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us [Yes, this really is a FreeBSD question, read on...] SGI's IRIX 5.3 (with ONC3/NFS) includes a Cache File System (CacheFS) described as "a new file system type ... that provides client-side caching for NFS and other file system types." From the manual... "CacheFS is optimally used on an NFS client that has sufficient local disk space to reduce network data access time. Once the data has been cached, file read and read-only directory operations are as fast as those on a local disk. Write performance, however, is closer to an NFS write operation." In essence, you create a fixed-size "cache file" on a local disk and then point cachefs at the filesystem you wish to cache (most likely NFS and/or CDROM). Are there any plans in FreeBSD for anything like this? -Randy -- Charles F. Randall E-mail: crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us UNIX Systems Programmer Voice: (515) 965-7057 FAX: (515) 965-7305