[OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration

[John S. Bucy]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:22:31PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:00:59AM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> >>>Secondly, I know this is a rather drastic proposal, but is it time to
> >>>consider splitting the cache manager out of individual filesystem 
> >>>clients?
> >>It seems like Arla would probably have a better model for us all to follow
> >>if we did so.
> >
> >Or on Linux, something based on FUSE, which is apparently now getting
> >merged.
> 
> Arla's nnpfs is actually portable, one filesystem per platform sort of 
> sucks.

David Howells' cachefs appears to be being merged in 2.6.11.

Here's the original post:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.3/1166.html



john