[CentOS] NFS client caching

Thu Apr 11 08:19:57 UTC 2013
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

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