[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on the Palm Pre smartphone!

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:04:00AM -0800, Alf Wachsmann wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>> I should say that I had problems with the disk cache on
>> my Pre and had to use memcache instead. I did not investigate.
>
> Can you elaborate any on the disk cache problems? I assume this was
> likely because the backing filesystem was not ext3?

I did not spend any time on this and I don't have AFS running on
my Pre any more so I can't easily try.

"/" on the Pre is ext3(*) but I think I didn't realize back then that "/"
is mounted read-only (duh!). I immediately switched to memcache.

-- Alf.


(*) There are three file system types on the Pre:
- the system directories are all ext3 mounted "ro"
- the volatile system directories ("/tmp" and the like) are all tmpfs
- the large user data (songs, pictures, etc.) are all on the flash memory
chip mounted as vfat.

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