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From: "Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian" <fst@real.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Persistent cache for cfs
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:35:28 -0700
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Stash is exactly what I was shooting for. There are a couple
of distributed fs options on the Linux/*BSD side with OpenAFS (IBM) and 
Coda (CMU); Both use a cache to continue operating when disconnected.
Their models have too much unnecessary overhead for Plan9.

At 09:02 AM 5/12/01 -0400, presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>What plan 9 could use is a stash, something that stores files
>you accessed recently, perhaps picking them up lazily.  That way,
>you could disconnect and keep working.  You'ld still need a
>local file system like Unix's root file system because you need
>some guaranteed files, or you could just provide a set of files
>that the stash absolutely has to have, in addition to what it
>caches.  It would be a nice and useful project for someone to
>do.  There was a lot of good work some years ago at Columbia
>and other places.  No idea where it went.