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Ramdisks and hard drives as cache devices

Ramdisks and hard drives as cache devices

Posted Jul 22, 2010 20:59 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Ramdisks and hard drives as cache devices by neilbrown
Parent article: Bcache: Caching beyond just RAM

Unfortunately if you want to spot cache invalidations, the lack of leases on NFSv3 is a killer, because you still have to roundtrip to the server to see if your cache is stale, and roundtrips are the slow part :( fs-cache slows NFS *down* quite considerably in my experience, for exactly this reason.


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