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- From: paul@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Looking for caching strategy
- Keywords: cache caching NFS
- Message-ID: <BzEB3B.G56@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 08:47:34 GMT
- References: <1gn5urINN1771@obelix.uni-muenster.de>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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- In article <1gn5urINN1771@obelix.uni-muenster.de>, hund@math.uni-muenster.de (Ulli Hund) writes:
- > Hello,
- > we are managing a small to medium network of SUNs here at M|nster.
- > We have a lot of IPXes, ELCs, some SS 10 and some other machines (also SUNs).
- > A lot of them have local discs, so we do not want a power-server
- > machine but a different concept.
- > Until now we have so-called packages on some of the machines, that
- > are being distributed each night (if necessary). We also have a
- > database that defines which files should be copied and which should
- > be linked. But: This is a lot of work, and that's not what we want.
- > We would appreciate a solution like this: Packages on different
- > machines, and each time a user accesses a file it is copied to his
- > local disc (if available). Thats a simple caching method, but we
- > did not run into a program that provides this.
- > Does anyone know a (good!) caching program or does anyone have
- > a better solution to manage a network like ours?
- > It would be really nice to get an answer of some experienced people!
-
- We have some software that does exactly what you describe.
- I gave a talk on this at LISA VI - there is a copy of the paper in
- pub/lfu/lisa6.tar.Z on ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk. (The software is also available
- there).
-
- Paul
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