Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:34:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: cachefs module for linux? |
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Juan Antonio Martinez wrote: > > 1- Are there any fs module to implement a local disk cache over > > NFS readonly mounted filesystems? Something about Solaris's cachefs > > cachefs gets mentioned now and again, and is very useful. We used it on > the cnn.com Web farm, where we had one big machine (NFS server) and > several Web servers all mounting the big server's drives with > nfs+cachefs. cachefs really improved throughput, but cnn.com uses > almost exclusively static files.
squid does the same in a far more elegant way as we implemented for the Sony Motion Pictures site. NFS is the wrong solution and the wrong protocol for web caching.
I thought NFS already did some caching?
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