[OpenAFS] AFS cache

[Alexei Kosut]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:07:17PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> > Is it possible to not use the cache at all, and make the client
> > write tro the server everytime?
> 
> No.

I've also been wondering about this recently, albeit for a different
(and less compelling) reason: I regularly transfer ten megabyte files
via AFS using the Mac OS X Finder.  On my relatively slow ADSL
connection, this can take nearly twenty minutes, but due to the AFS
caching behavior, the Finder's progress dialog speeds through the
entire file in just a few seconds, then "hangs" near the end until the
file is actually copied to the AFS server, leaving me with no
indication of how the transfer is actually proceeding.

It would be nice if there was some way to make such progress meters
more accurately reflect reality, especially if it could be done
without compromising the efficiency gains from the AFS cache or by
requiring changes to the Finder or other programs.

-- 
Alexei Kosut <akosut@cs.stanford.edu> <http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~akosut/>