[OpenAFS] Cache Questions

[Tino Schwarze]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:29:04AM -0000, Juha Suominen wrote:

> Is there any idea to have a big (15gb or so) server-side (memory) cache. Or 
> is it even possible to have a server-side caching?? 

AFAIK, there is no explicit server-side caching. (The OS should take
care of that, e.g. by using usused memory as file system cache.)

> Is it possible to configure several client-side caches so when the cache 
> manager tries to find the requested file, it would look-up it's local caches 
> before querying the file from the server? 

You mean a distributed cache like Squid's? This is also not possible
and it would be pretty complicated in regard to how cache invalidation
works with AFS - the file server tells all clients if a file's content
have changed.

Bye, Tino.

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