[OpenAFS-devel] Large-Cache Initialization (Proposal)

[Derek Atkins]

chas williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> >I don't want a bigger chunksize.  I deal with lots of small files.
> >Besides, that's not the problem.  The problem is that many FSs don't
> >deal with extremely large directories.
> 
> usually people just want a large cache in order to handle very large files.

Perhaps, but that's not what I want.  I want to handle having, e.g. my
mail folders completely cached locally.  I keep my email in nnml
format, which implies one file per message.  Part of this is in
preparation for disconnected operations :)

-derek

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