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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Persistent cache for cfs
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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:26:07 -0600
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On Mon, 21 May 2001, Matthew Weigel wrote:

> When the stash is full, it would be a reasonable first pass to delete
> the oldest files until sufficient space frees up; beyond that, looking
> at other people's work in the area seems prudent.

you can check my web page for the autocacher
(http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich). This was a file cache.

but it was a readonly stash. It did however handle the cache full case,
and also the pathological 'that file is too big for the cache' case.


For consistency of stashes across a network of machines, you can check out
Intermezzo.

ron