[OpenAFS] AFS on Ubuntu 5.04: anyone?

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:25:39 -0700


Sensei <senseiwa@tin.it> writes:
> On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:20 am, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> -memcache is still not recommended, by me at least, but it does work if
>> you have to use it.  In my personal experience, it is not appreciably
>> faster than disk cache and is not entirely stable.  If I were you and
>> completely invested in XFS as my only file system, I'd create a 100MB
>> file, build an ext3 file system on it, mount it with a loop mount, and
>> use it for the cache.

> That's an option. Another option I'm thinking about is using a ramdisk
> with an ext2 filesystem as cache. I'll try both of them.

Yes, that should also work.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>