[OpenAFS] caching local data

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
06 May 2002 20:17:24 -0400


Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org> writes:

> based on what we'll be doing on the network, i'm thinking i'll want
> several of the beefier workstations on the network to be simple file
> servers as well as clients. i'm hoping afs will ignore the cache when
> the afs files are actually coming from a local disk? is that the case?

Nope.  The client and server are completely separate and wont even
realize they are sitting on the same machine.

-derek

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