Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 11:41:13 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Soren Dossing <sauber@netcom.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clientside nfs caching Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970404114051.5836C-100000@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <199704032214.PAA23046@xmission.xmission.com>
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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.
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