[OpenAFS] 'diskless' clients with AFS in Linux initrd

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:47:13 -0500 (EST)


(Please reply to either me or the list, not both)

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Blake Atkins wrote:

> So, could you not use the kernel ram disk and set OAFS to use a disk cache on
> top of it?

Not without more work: his magic installer didn't use afsd
(which would need to set up the disk cache) but instead make the relevant
AFS system calls
(no setup needed for memcache)