From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 05:32:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 05:32:09 -0400 Received: from mailhost.cendio.se ([193.180.23.130]:46581 "EHLO mail.cendio.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 05:32:00 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed") In-Reply-To: <002b01c136e1$3bb36a80$81d4870a@cartman> <15260.25562.278698.458611@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> From: Marcus Sundberg Date: 10 Sep 2001 11:32:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <15260.25562.278698.458611@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown) writes: > SUNs "cachefs" concept can be used to improve read performance by > caching a lot more of server-data on the client. That could be > implemented for Linux, but I don't know of anyone with serious plans. cachefs sucks. It doesn't seem to cache stat(2) information. Doing ls -F in a ~100-entries directory takes several seconds over a link with 50ms round-trip time. //Marcus -- ---------------------------------+--------------------------------- Marcus Sundberg | Phone: +46 707 452062 Embedded Systems Consultant | Email: marcus@cendio.se Cendio Systems AB | http://www.cendio.com