[OpenAFS] Which kind of cache is best?

[Derek Atkins]

Stephen Joyce <stephen@physics.unc.edu> writes:

> What kind of stability problems?  What OS/OpenAFS combination?
> 
> FWIW, I've used memory caches (not ram disk caches) on Linux (RH 8.0 and
> 9.0, versions from OpenAFS 1.2.5 to OpenAFS 1.2.9), and Solaris (1.2.10)
> without any obvious problems... *knocks on wood*

Yea, it was broken in the early 1.2.x days; I found and fixed a bug
about a year ago to allow -memcache to work on Linux 2.4 (it would
constantly crash otherwise), and honestly I think it's pretty stable
now.

-derek
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