Re: is cache-only-prefixes an nnpfs limitation?
Tomas Olsson <[email protected]>
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Pavel Cahyna <[email protected]> writes: > sorry for replying to this old thread... > I don't mind, it's one of my favourites... > I have an idea, could the 1:1 mapping stay, with the cache file becoming a > "sparse file"? The "holes" would fill the part of the cache file that > does not contain valid data. > Well, technically yes. And I would love it. The difficult part is the requiement that we should be able to read/write files larger than the cache. That means cache eviction of parts of files, and making new holes in files doesn't seem to be widely supported yet. Convince me :) /t