[OpenAFS] Which kind of cache is best?

[Stephen Joyce]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I would recommend against using memory cache regardless of the load; we've
> encountered a lot of instability and problems with it.  I think a ramdisk
> would be more stable.

What kind of stability problems?  What OS/OpenAFS combination?

FWIW, I've used memory caches (not ram disk caches) on Linux (RH 8.0 and
9.0, versions from OpenAFS 1.2.5 to OpenAFS 1.2.9), and Solaris (1.2.10)
without any obvious problems... *knocks on wood*

Cheers,
Stephen
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