[OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.4.61-042.0501211222080.15636@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Der
> rick J Brashear writes:
>> Arla's nnpfs is actually portable, one filesystem per platform sort of
>> sucks.
>
> i like using the existing space on the filesystem.  usually i havent
> planned ahead for a new filesystem partition.  so i like things like
> memcache.  perhaps afs could use a single cache file?  this probably
> would not suffer from the various 'find the inode' problems.

I don't see why it should be any different to allocate a large file and 
use it like memcache.