Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Mar 1999 04:10:17 -0600 | From | Mitchell Blank Jr <> | Subject | Re: Cachefs |
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(I tried to answer this posters question privately... unfortunately, their email address they posted from <dtthomas.in.ofcmail@in.oracle.com> is invalid "Bad domain: dtthomas.in.ofcmail") Deepak - please fix your mailer before posting again, it's really annoying)
Deepak Tony Thomas wrote: > Is Cachefs (Solaris has this) available on Linux ?!!
No, there was a project a long time ago if I remember right, but as far as I know it went nowhere.
Cachefs would be really great, however. It's one thing thats keeping some people stuck to Solaris and IRIX right now. I can say from experience that it is extremely useful.
> One another thing - if I had a CD-ROM, I could mount that as a Cachefs with > write permissions, whereas actually any writes would only create copies in > the file-cache.
What you want is "unionfs" from BSD4.4. It's a seperate problem (although it could be used with cachefs as you explain) Unfortunately, this isn't something linux has either. I think the new VFS stuff would make this not too hard. Some people are working on getting something like BSD's 'stackable filesystems' running under linux.
> Any comments ?
I'd suggest taking up this discussion on linux-future instead. There are some people interested in future directions for VFS there.
-Mitch
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