[OpenAFS] Q: Diskless Clients

Nathan Neulinger nneul@umr.edu
Thu, 08 Feb 2001 08:04:16 -0600


> Yeah, but the memory cache sucks big time.
> 
> Depending on the architecture, you may be better off mounting a
> RAM-based file system and using the disk-cache mechanism.  It's sick,
> but you will probably do better with that than with the memory cache.

How so? Is it a performance issue, or other problems? Any particular
data points on i386_linux22?

-- Nathan

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