[OpenAFS] Which kind of cache is best?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Stephen Joyce <stephen@physics.unc.edu> writes:
>
> > 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*
>
> Yea, it was broken in the early 1.2.x days; I found and fixed a bug
> about a year ago to allow -memcache to work on Linux 2.4 (it would
> constantly crash otherwise), and honestly I think it's pretty stable
> now.

It should also work on Irix, Chas Williams found and fixed a bug there
probably around 1.2.8.