Coda File System

Re: Cache Overflow

From: Mitja Sarp <mitja_at_lysator.liu.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:40:21 +0200
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:51:08PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:

> Coda uses `whole file caching'. So your cache needs to be (at least) as
> large as the 2GB file you are trying to work with. And, as you might
> have noticed, the cache-limit is a little `soft', and Coda only
> complains once every 30 seconds about an overflow, and you might want to
> have the directories leading up to the file cached so it is probably
> better to have a larger local cache size.
> 

How about, if a file is found to be larger than the local cache, it skips the caching
and logging part and the file would come 'streaming' from the server instead?
Received on 1999-08-12 06:41:43