[Linux-cachefs] FS-Cache for NFS-root ?

[David Howells]

Wilhelm Meier <wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be simpler to include a new kernel option "fsc" to 
> the "nfsroot"-parameter in the FS-Cache patches? 

Not really; you may still need to run a userspace component (eg: cachefilesd).

Theoretically you could start CacheFS like that as that simply uses mount to
activate the cache and it doesn't have a userspace component.

I'd say initrd is probably the right place to do it for now.

David