Andrew Valencia writes:
> [pat@wesson.it.com.au (Pat Mackinlay) writes:]
>
> >Ok, I now have another important implementation question. Where should the
> >disk caching/buffering be done?
>
> In the server. More in a second.
>
> >From a novice's standpoint, it would seem
> >logical to have a "cache server" sitting between the physical disk servers
> >and the filing systems
>
> You assume that there is a caching algorithm which works for all filesystems.
> In fact, once you start thinking about caching on a per-filesystem basis,
> it quickly becomes apparently that there are great advantages to doing your
> cache design on a per-filesystem basis. Both srv/tmpfs and srv/vstafs have
> unique cache handling because of this.
Doesn't prevent a dynamic buffer cache? A big loss in my view.
> Andy
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