[OpenAFS] Solaris 10u6: ZFS cache?

Marc Dionne marc.c.dionne@gmail.com
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:33:49 -0500


Harald Barth wrote:
>> I think supporting tmpfs would be desirable if
>> it could come "for free". 
> 
> It would be very desirable on Linux for the clusters we have.
> 
> Harald.

tmpfs on Linux supports the exportfs API, so the new "--enable-linux-fh" 
option in 1.5.55 should allow you to put the cache on tmpfs.

In fact I'm doing a test right now (but with 1.4.8 + linux-fh patch), 
and it's working fine.  I expect 1.5.55 compiled with the option will 
work as well.

Marc