I had the idea to cache writes to my nfs filesystem on my local hard drive.

It seems CacheFS exists to cache reads, but not writes to nfs.

I would imagine that if I could cache writes to my nfs on a local drive I could have a fast system, but keep all my files where I want them on my network.

I'm thinking about this because I am planning on buying a SSD, and I would imagine if I could set things up this way the system could be lightening fast while keeping things on the network. Currently if I copy a large file (hundreds of MB) it is quite slow, with an SSD and caching, I would imagine the copy could be very fast.

Does anybody know if something like this is possible ?

Thanks.

Hi there,

I guess you are looking for this: http://osr507doc.sco.com/en/PERFORM/NFS_tuning.html

I would suggest you to use autofs with NFS. There are many benefits of using autofs with NFS. One of the main advantage is if the client connection breaks from the server it prevent client from getting hang.

I hope this helps.