[OpenAFS] Q: Diskless Clients

[Derek Atkins]

Yes, this is what was meant.  Create a ramdisk and then use
AFS's disk cache on that ramdisk.

-derek

Dirk Heinrichs <heinrichs@qis-systemhaus.de> writes:

> David Thompson wrote:
> >=20
> > Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> >
> > The other problem is performance.  Largely because of the above, the
> > benchmarks we ran had better results with a disk-cache-on-a-ram-disk
> > than with a straight memory cache.
> Then there was a misunderstanding here. To make things clear: You didn't
> mean boot from a ramdisk an use a phisical disk for the disk cache, but
> instead of a real memory cache, create a ramdisk and use disk caching on
> it. Is this correct?
> 
> Bye...
> 
> 	Dirk
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