[OpenAFS] AFS without caching possible?

Cajus Pollmeier c.pollmeier@gmx.net
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:59:59 +0100


On Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 15:00, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:22:36 +0100 Cajus Pollmeier
>
> <c.pollmeier@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've some trouble with discless clients where I need to get access to
> > some /afs directories. AFAIK I need some cache to make AFS work, but I've
> > no physical disc to place it. Putting it on a ramdisc results in:
>
> The AFS cache must be on an ext2 or ext3 filesystem.  Putting an ext2 or
> ext3 filesystem on a ramdisk will work, but tmpfs will not.

Ok. Is there a minimum "recommended" size? Using the default max size of
8192 KB for a ramdisk still crashes the client. Should I increase the size? I
adjusted the cachesize to fit in the ramdisk.

Cajus