[OpenAFS] AFS without caching possible?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:

> On Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 12:45, Hartmut Reuter wrote:
> > We mostly use ramdisks as cache in Linux 2.4 and AIX 5.2. Did you do
> > correctly a mkfs for ext2?
> > We have this in our /etc/init.d/afs:
> >
> > /sbin/mkfs /dev/ram1 16384 >/dev/null 2>&1
> > mount /dev/ram1 /usr/vice/cache
>
> I'm using tmpfs as ramdisc on the clients, maybe the problem is that its
> size is dynamic.

no, it doesn't have a proper inode abstraction. tmpfs isn't ramdisk.

> Another hint was to use the "-memcache" option, but the client still crashes...