EOF of Cache FileSystem (cachefs) [PSARC/2008/478 FastTrack timeout 08/04/2008]

[Gordon Ross]

[...]
> I'd be happy to see a whitepaper or some kind of transition document 
> with the case, describing (ideally in terms a customer should be able
> to 
> understand) how to transition from cachefs to some other strategy 
> (iSCSI, NFSv4, whatever).  I don't know how to make the same 
> functionality (NFS like) work with iSCSI, but I'll chalk that up to
> my 
> own ignorance rather than any deficiency in iSCSI.
> 
> It would be nice to see a commitment to closing any remaining gap as 
> much as possible, perhaps by further development of NFSv4 -- as
> others 
> have suggested.
> 
> As a final note, I do recall that cachefs was supposed to be generic
> for 
> things like cdroms, etc.  I do agree with the proposal that cachefs
> like 
> behavior for anything *other than NFS* is probably not terribly
> interesting.

Don't forget the "smbfs" client (similar to the NFSv4 client).
That suggests the need for a solution above the VFS, or at least
one that can can be mostly common among VFS implementations.

Gordon