[Linux-cachefs] Documentation on CacheFS?

Hans Meine meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Wed Sep 29 17:46:37 UTC 2010


Hi Paul,

thanks for your update.

Am Mittwoch 29 September 2010, 19:30:38 schrieb Gilliam, PaulX J:
> CacheFS is currently "on the back burner".  David did a great job
> implementing a cool design that turned out to be not so cool.
> [...]  It has suffered some "bit
> rot" due to changed interfaces, etc.  David went through it and got a
> clean compile with a (more or less) up-to-date kernel (a moving target
> :-)) and I am testing/debugging it now (with a 2.6.35-rc5 kernel from the
> NFS working group).

Maybe something like the above could be put into linux/Documentation/... in 
the meantime.  That could prevent others from spending time on searching like 
I did.

I'll reconsider cachefiles then.

Have a nice day,
  Hans




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