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Less known Solaris Features: CacheFS - Part 8: Conclusion

Monday, August 18. 2008

CacheFS is one of this features even some experienced admins aren´t aware of. But as soon as they try it, most of them can´t live without it. You should give it a try.

Do you want to learn more?

Manuals
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems - Using The CacheFS File System

man pages
docs.sun.com: cfsadmin
docs.sun.com: cachefsstat
docs.sun.com: mount_cachefs

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 18:52 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

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Less known Solaris Features: CacheFS
Yet another tutorial finalized - this time about one of the really hidden features of Solaris - CacheFS. CacheFS is something similar to a caching proxy. But this proxy don´t cache web page, it caches files from another filesystem. Introduction Theo

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This article of CacheFS is much appreciated.
CacheFS sounds quite good for my work.
One major concern is it does not work with NFS version higher than 3. We are updating all our servers to the newest version of Solaris 10. If CacheFS can work with higher version of NFS, that is critical to me.

#1 Yude Gao on 2008-09-11 21:13 (Reply)

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