Filesystem-local databases in mlocate
Bernardo Innocenti
bernie at develer.com
Sun Mar 18 11:45:17 UTC 2007
Axel Thimm wrote:
>> The NFSv4 spec allows very aggressive client-side caching. Recent kernels
>> with cachefs may even use local files for backing store. This general
>> solution should speedup most usage patterns without the need to add
>> specialized caches to all applications.
>
> We're certainly not there yet to disallow connecting to NFS3 servers
> (or anything but NFSv4).
NFSv3 still works, but will do less caching.
Actually, I'm not sure whether NFSv3 can do efficient read-only caching
or not. Maybe yes.
And btw, I can't find cachefs anywhere in recent 2.6.20 kernels.
Does anyone know where it's gone?
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