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

[Darren J Moffat]

This derailed fast-track was voted on in PSARC on Wednesday 6th August 
2008.  There were no deny votes and a sufficient number of approve votes.

An opinion will be produced purely for the purposes of advice to funding 
bodies.  It will cover the following points (in more detail).

	Existing cachefs source/architecture needs to be EOF, committee
	happy with that.

	Existing cachefs was already lagging the current Solaris
	architecture since there is no support for NFSv4 or smbfs.
	
	CacheFS is still used by some large and important customers.

	Need a caching solution that can work with NFSv4, smbfs and
	possibly even filesystems accessed via FUSE (to be able
	to cache webdav of sshfs as examples).

	Advice to funding bodies to determine the business case and
	technical requirements for a replacement client cacheing system.

The committee was happy that the project team could proceed with the 
rest of their EOF process requirements without waiting for the opinion 
to be produced.

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Darren J Moffat