Re: plugin for cached network file system

2004-05-13 Thread Hans Reiser
Markus Törnqvist wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:21:06AM +0200, Miguel wrote: wow the problem here maybe to find a hat with 1.8million dollar capacity Getting the bugger bootstrapped may require less money. There are pleny of people working on cluster file systems. Their stuff doe

Re: plugin for cached network file system

2004-05-13 Thread Hans Reiser
Michael James wrote: Michael James asked: How hard would it be to write a Reiser4 plug-in to implement a network file system with a cache on the local disk? Then, On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:49, Hans Reiser wrote: It is easy to do a hack, and hard to do it right so that the world would

Re: plugin for cached network file system

2004-05-13 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
You could try coda. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ It supports disconnected operation and network caching. I don't know if their "venus" caching daemon blows up if you tell it to cache 20Gig's. Their admin doc says max. 300Meg's for caching. From their homepage: Coda is a distributed filesystem with