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To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] killing processes
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:46:16 +0200
From: Sape Mullender <sape@huygens.org>
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>> Just to be clear, Sape is saying that if you boot and
>> sometimes you use one file server as root and sometimes
>> you use a different one, then cfs will use the data cached
>> on behalf of the first one when you're using the other
>> one.

That was indeed what I meant.

> Is there not a simple mechanism to clean the cache on boot, manually,
> possibly, or perhaps giving CFS enough information to pick a cache
> based on the root fileserver?  I mean, this sounds more like a bug
> than a feature.

Yes, you can tell cfs to clear the cache on startup, but then you lose a lot
of speed during the early phases of running.

	Sape