[Linux-cachefs] NFS/CacheFS not working

Cesar Delgado cdelgad2 at bigred.unl.edu
Mon May 8 16:39:12 UTC 2006


What does it say in /proc/mount?  Does it show the "fsc" flag for the 
mounted NFS server?  I've been having the same problem you have.  Even 
though I give it the "-o fsc" flag there is nothing to show for it in proc.

-Cesar

Derek Siu wrote:
> Hi Cesar,
> 
> I am using kernel 2.6.14-mm2. My procedures are as follow:
> 
> 1) Download the kernel source
> 2) patch with the mm2 patches
> 3) download and apply all the patches in David's directory
> 4) install the util-linux found in Steve's directory
> (util-linux-2.12p-9.3.nfsmount.fsc.i386.rpm)
> 5) After installing the new kernel, run "echo "cachefs___" > /dev/hda6"
> 6) mount -t cachefs /dev/hda6 /cachedir -o tag=mycache
> 7) mount -o fsc SERVER_IP:/pub  /mnt/pub
> 
> These are all the steps. Did I miss any anything?
> 
> Another question is that after I read several files from the mounted
> directory, should I be able to SEE those files in the cache directory
> (/cachedir in the above case)?
> Thanks!
> 
> Derek
> 
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