[Linux-cachefs] [PATCH 10/14] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility [try #8]

Ed Suominen general at eepatents.com
Fri May 12 02:53:29 UTC 2006


David Howells wrote:
> The attached patch adds a generic intermediary (FS-Cache) by which filesystems
> may call on local caching capabilities, and by which local caching backends may
> make caches available:
> 
> 	+---------+
> 	|         |                        +--------------+
> 	|   NFS   |--+                     |              |
> 	|         |  |                 +-->|   CacheFS    |
> 	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |  /dev/hda5   |
> 	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
> 	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
> 	|         |      |          |--+
> 	|   AFS   |----->| FS-Cache |
> 	|         |      |          |--+
> 	+---------+  +-->|          |  |
> 	             |   |          |  |   +--------------+
> 	+---------+  |   +----------+  |   |              |
> 	|         |  |                 +-->|  CacheFiles  |
> 	|  ISOFS  |--+                     |  /var/cache  |
> 	|         |                        +--------------+
> 	+---------+
> 

Nice diagram. It's great to see all the resumed activity on this.

I wonder, will this be versatile enought that one could substitute
"sshfs" or "smbfs" for one of the boxes on the left?

Keep up the good work! I'm watching and waiting, albeit just as one
lowly Linux user...

Best regards,
Ed Suominen




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