[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS

Ryan Underwood nemesis-lists@icequake.net
Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:40:30 -0600


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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:29:43PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
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> > Okay, that lets OpenAFS out for me then.
>=20
> I don't see what's so hard about creating an ext2/3 partition for your
> afs cache.  You should have a dedicated cache partition anyways.
> Worst case you could use the -memcache option to afsd and skip the
> persistent disk cache.

Even easier is to use a loop-mounted ext2 filesystem.  My machines all
run ReiserFS and use loop-mounted ext2's for AFS cache.  It works fine
and is very easy to set up.

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>

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