Re: why does nfs use it's own buffer cache?

Mike Mackovitch writes:

The NFS buffer cache code was added in 10.3. Before that (10.2 and

earlier) NFS used the standard buffer cache. So, if you'd like to

see what the code looked like when NFS did use the standard buffer

cache, check out the 10.2 code.

The primary reasons for NFS using its own buffer cache are

multi-page buffer support and better unstable write support:

[...]

Hope that helps.

Yes, thank you for comprehensive answer.

--macko

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