[Linux-cachefs] Filesystems

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Apr 10 22:08:48 UTC 2009


jordi contreras <jordi.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:

> why FS-Cache doesn't runs for every filesystem, and only runs for AFS,
> NFS...?

Because the filesystem being cached needs to be modified to drive FS-Cache.
It has to provide FS-Cache with index keys and consistency data, and has to
give FS-Cache pages to store and ask FS-Cache to retrieve them again.

> I've seen in one web that in the next version of kernel, 2.6.30, cache-fs
> i'ts included, it's true?

Yes.

David




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