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SubjectRe: cachefs module for linux?
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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