-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of James Pearson Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 5:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32 maillists at gmail.com wrote: > dag, thanks for the article. I'm tempted to rebuild a 2.6.18 kernel without > the patches that disable fs-cache. It's hard to tell if Redhat abandoned it > because it was unstable or because it was too much trouble to maintain > something they thought might never make the mainline kernel. I believe the FS-Cache code wasn't removed from the RHEL 5.x kernels - it was just the fsc option that was disabled in the kernel mount options and also disabled in nfs-utils (mount.nfs) as well. It would be quite easy to remove this kernel patch and rebuild a kernel (and rebuild nfs-utils, or use a version of mount.nfs from 5.2)- however, the FS-Cache code in these kernels is now quite old and very likely to be buggy - RedHat has not updated the kernel code to match the mainline kernels since 5.2 Personally, I would wait for CentOS 6 - but even then, FS-Cache is currently classed as a 'preview' technology in the RHEL 6.0 beta James Pearson _______________________________________________ Thanks for the informative post; I was a bit puzzled at first after reading the previous postings regarding this topic as I have seen the FS-Cache: Loaded message every time I log in as a user whose home directory has been automounted.