Coda File System

Re: simple readahead ?

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt_at_metux.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:11:20 +0200
* Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com> wrote:

Hi,

> Venus does whole-file caching, so this doesn't make sense.  
> The open doesn't finish until the whole file has been obtained.

Ah, that's why my applications are blocking for ten minutes 
on startup.

> The RPC2 protocol does not stream particularly well on slow links, 
> but that's a separate issue.

In fact, it's very bad. In my case it's 10x as slow as scp.

Any idea how to get around it ?


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