[CentOS] NFS client caching

Fri Apr 12 09:39:13 UTC 2013
Bazy <bazy84 at gmail.com>

On 04/11/2013 11:19 AM, James Pearson wrote:
> Bazy [bazy84 at gmail.com] wrote:
>> I've just read how GoDaddy upgraded its servers to CentOS6 and in the
>> article they wrote about "NFS client caching".
>> Can anyone point me to documentation they used to implement NFS client
>> caching? Tips and tricks are welcome :-)
> I guess they are using FS-Cache - see:
>
> <https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/fscachemain.html>
>
> and:
>
> <http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-redhat-install-configure-cachefilesd-for-nfs/>
>
> I haven't used it in production, so have no idea how good (or bad?) it is - however, I suggest you read the 'Performance Guarantee' in the first link above ...
>
> James Pearson
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Thanks James,

In the end I decided to use zfs caching with SSDs :-)


//bazy