Re: CacheFS

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Sat, 9 Jun 2001 10:29:36 +0200


Hi!

> > * Can the kernel part of CODA can be used for this?
>
> Not if you want to intercept and redirect every single read and write
> call. That's a whole other can of worms, and I'd advise you to let the
> userspace cachemanager to act as an NFS daemon. In my opinion, the Coda
> kernel module fills a specific niche, and should not become yet another
> kernel NFS client implementation that happens to bounce requests to
> userspace using read/write on a character device instead of RPC/UDP
> packets to a socket.

Forget NFS if you want it to be read/write. There are nasty deadlocks
out there.

> AVFS,
> Another userfs implementation that when from a shared library hack
> to using the Coda kernel module,
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/avfs

avfs moved to sourceforge? Wow!
Pavel

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