From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 08:42:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA18416 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA18407 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:42:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA05941; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 11:41:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 11:41:13 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC cc: Soren Dossing , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clientside nfs caching In-Reply-To: <199704032214.PAA23046@xmission.xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > Soren Dossing asked: > > Does any applications exist for freebsd, that can do client side caching > > of file systems mounted with nfs or similar service. I will consider any > > free as well as commercial solutions. > > Good God I hope not. This is most certainly a recipe for disaster. > You're far better off getting a faster server or a faster network. No, client-side caching is standard behavior for nfs. I think you're confused because it often called caching, when really it's just read/write buffering. Under FreeBSD it's handled by nfsiod and is usually automatically launched.