[OpenAFS] Using tmpfs for afs cache

[Jason Edgecombe]

Cees de Groot wrote:
> 
> David Thompson <thomas@cs.wisc.edu> said:
> >These are exactly the reasons that I have not used either the mem cache or the ramdisk cache for our linux computers here.  Too bad the tmpfs cache doesn't work (yet).
> >
> Would it really be better than doing the same through ext2? After all, Linux
> is quite aggressive in caching (sometimes better than on-controller RAM
> caches), so I don't think you'll see much of a difference. And because tmpfs
> - if it's the same thing as under Solaris - resizes dynamically, wouldn't that
> make the afs client module extremely unhappy?
 From what i understand of tmpfs on linux. You can set a max value at
mount time. The fs will grow as needed until it reaches the max.

Jason