[OpenAFS-devel] multi-file based cache vs. single-file based cache

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

Doesn't the NT code use a single file cache?

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:jhutz@cmu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:11 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc: 'openafs-devel@openafs.org'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] multi-file based cache vs. single-file
> based cache
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:
> 
> > Does the 'multi-file' based cache outperform a single-file 
> based cache? It
> > seems to me that if a single-file based cache ran good, it 
> might be an easy
> > way to get rid of a lot of filesystem issues, like this one 
> with reiserfs. 
> 
> I don't think anyone knows the answer to this.  A single-file 
> cache would
> require nontrivial changes to the cache manager.  It's 
> certainly doable,
> but it would take some effort.  Of course, I can't speak for 
> whether such
> a change would be accepted.
> 
> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
>    Sr. Research Systems Programmer
>    School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
>    Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
>