[Gllug] Combining SMB and NFS - was Embedded Linux & 1Gbps?

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

>
>  - Lack of local caching of unchanging files. This is an implementation
>    thing, thankfully being fixed in the Linux implementation by cachefs.
>    It probably can't be done reliably *and* efficiently in NFS<4 without
>    another bag on the side of the protocol (like lockd is), because you
>    need to take out a lease on all locally cached files or in some other
>    way arrange to be notified when they are changed on the server or by
>    other clients.

I can't find cachefs packaged for Debian - am I missing something?

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