Re: [Linux-cachefs] ext4 and NTFS support?

[Daire Byrne <Daire Byrne framestore com>]

David,

----- "David Howells" <dhowells redhat com> wrote:
> > Have you tested ext4 with cachefilesd - should it work? It doesn't for me
> > using Fedora's 2.6.29 kernel and thr fscache-47 patches (Cachefiles:Lookup
> > failed error -1).
> 
> Was anything printed in dmesg as to why?

Only (Cachefiles:Lookup failed error -1).

> Your best bet is to try 2.6.30's latest rc.

Okay - will do.
 
> > Do you think it would be possible to use NTFS-3G as the cache store? I tried
> > mounting an NTFS partition using "streams_interface=xattr" but cachfilesd
> > doesn't like that much.
> 
> I don't know.  It must support user xattrs and bmap.

The NTFS-3G site suggests that it does support these but I'm not sure what if anything was lost when they moved over to FUSE.

> I can't look at this much at the moment.  I'm in the US for a week for
> a conference, and so my ability to try stuff is somewhat limited.

No worries. I was more curious than anything - it is not so important.

Daire