[OpenAFS] Re: Problems with reiserfs when start OpenAFS 1.2.11-fc1 Segmentation fault with kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl

[Derrick J Brashear]

Pruned the CC list again. Why are people still copying the reiserfs list?
Edit your headers.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Dan Pritts wrote:

> I realize it won't work out of the box, but has anyone given any
> thought to putting the cache in tmpfs?

I've given it thought.

> Seems like this might be the best of both worlds - when the system is low
> on RAM it can use swap, but when you've got plenty of RAM you avoid the
> overhead of writing the cache files to disk.
>
> more flexible than memcache, faster than disk cache.  My understanding
> (limited) of the tmpfs on linux suggests that it might be an easy change
> to make in the code for someone who understood the data structions better
> than i do ;)

Not that easy. Same issue as the cache has with reiser, IIRC. look in the
archives about 2 years ago.