[Linux-cachefs] Anybody out there?

Sean seanb at lanl.gov
Mon Apr 25 14:43:07 UTC 2005


HI
    Look at the mm patches for 2.6.12-rc*.  That's the most recent stuff 
I've found.  There's docs in it with API info as well.

Sean

Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:

>On 4/25/05, David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>Sean <seanb at lanl.gov> wrote:
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>>>    Other than spammers and David's patch tuesday, this list has been pretty
>>>    quiet.  Is anyone working on an nfs-fscache patch?  I'm interested in
>>>    using nfs-fscache on our clusters.  I pulled SteveD's 2.6.9 patch but
>>>    haven't seen anything since then.
>>>      
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>>Yes. We're working on it again here. I'm look at simplifying the FS-Cache
>>interface, improving the performance of CacheFS and writing an alternative
>>backend that can use cache files.
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>I've been working on a 9P2000 distributed file system port to Linux
>(v9fs) -- the nature of the protocol is such that it is undesirable to
>use the linux page cache or dcache for all file systems, however, for
>static file systems it is desirable to have a cache layer provide
>these services.  I was interested in trying to hook v9fs into CacheFS
>-- are there any resources outside of the code to read up the
>interface/implementation?  Where can the most recent sent of CacheFS
>patches be grabed from?
>
>  -eric
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