[OpenAFS] clarification on client caches

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:19:14 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Wes Chow wrote:

>
> I'm a bit confused about how client side caches are organized.  My
> understanding is that the client cache contains a bunch of Vn files
> which are analagous to disk blocks and can hold between 0 and
> chunksize (by default 64k) bytes.  This would imply that the size of
> the cache is the number of Vn files times the chunksize.  Is this
> correct?

No. The assumption that you will use less than a full chunk means there 
can be more V files than that, and are by default.