[OpenAFS] Memory cache question

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:29:12 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Paul Blackburn wrote:

> The obvious way to not access the cache, is to access data outside of /afs.

afscp does that.

> I would look at using the rsync command to maintain a local disk replica
> copy of
> the whole 1gb of images files. Don't mess around with 500 mb. Disk is cheap.
> The rysnc command is "clever" because it only copies what it has to copy.
> If there are no changes, rsync will copy nothing.

Which is clever but has the "not in-band" problem.