<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6487.1"> <TITLE>Cached File system for use over the WAN</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Hi Fellows,</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Is there any current project or planned project that supports file system access over</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">the WAN so that any access to a file on a remote server, will result in a file copy</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">to a local cache on the requesting system, and all further requests for that</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">file, will be provided from the local cache, unless the file was modified.</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">For now I am discussing Read Only access on the remote client.</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">I think that I read of a future development for kernel 2.6 that includes "cachefs" as a general</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">cached file system mechanism that can be incorporated within other file system implementations.</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">For now I've since those options, but they do not seem as close to "GA"…</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.inter-mezzo.org/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">http://www.inter-mezzo.org/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://shfs.sourceforge.net/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial Unicode MS">http://shfs.sourceforge.net/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS">Jack.</FONT></SPAN></P> <BR> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Yaakov Bezalel,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">GCIH</FONT></B></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Computer Associates</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Manager, Development Information Technology Israel</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Tel: +972 3 6450072</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Fax: +972 3 5480166</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Pager: +972 3 6107199</FONT></SPAN></P> <P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Mobile: +972 53 994579</FONT><BR> </SPAN><A HREF="mailto:yaakov.bezalel@cai.com"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">mailto:yaakov.bezalel@cai.com</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> </BODY> </HTML>