[Linux-cachefs] Minimum patch for disk-cached NFS?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

I would be trying this, for the exact same reason (I run several 32-64
node clusters with the root filesystem on nfs), except I'm trying to get
ready for Supercomputing 2004 ;)

If I set up a bitkeepr/svn/tla tree that contains just the cachefs+afs+nfs
patches, would anyone be interested in using it, and/or assisting in
maintaining it? Or do the developers prefer to just do patches?


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:48:43PM +0200, hanzl at noel.feld.cvut.cz wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> anybody had any success in creating minimal patch against a mainstream
> kernel leading to working disk-cached NFS?
> 
> If I got it right, whole 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 is these 741 patches away from
> the mainstream:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/patch-series
> 
> I would like to have disk-cached NFS together with bproc (process
> migration from cluster head node to slave nodes, see
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bproc-users) and I guess
> some of those 741 patches would conflict with bproc much more than my
> knowledge would allow to fix.
> 
> Therefore I would like to reduce 741 to the bare minimum first - and
> maybe somebody on this list attempted this before?
> 
> 
> Persistent file caching on local disks of cluster slave machines (with
> simple NFS master) is my long-term dream with no clean linux solution
> so far - so many thanks to all of you working on cachefs and related
> NFS tweaks!
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Vaclav Hanzl
> 
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