[Pvfs2-developers] client caches

[Rob Ross]

let's try to use at least two letters to describe what kind of data we  
are caching, from now on. -- rob

On Jul 1, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Sam Lang wrote:

>
> Hi Walt,
>
> The acache (attribute cache) and ncache (name cache) are both based  
> on a generic timeout cache interface (tcache).  It shouldn't be hard  
> to build up a capability cache using tcache, and will allow you to  
> handle timeouts for capabilities separate from the attributes, which  
> I would imagine you're going to want to do.  There's a good chance  
> Rob will explode if you call it ccache though.
>
> -sam
>
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Walter Ligon wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm not an expert on the a-cache and d-cache, so I wanted to get  
>> some opinion from the group before diving into something.  We are  
>> going to need to manage capabilities on the client.  My gut  
>> intuition say they should go in the a-cache, but I don't know how a  
>> big a deal it is to add an arbitrary sized blob into that.  Would  
>> it be better to create a new c-cache, or should it be easy enough  
>> to add it to the a-cache?
>>
>> Any hints would be appreciated.
>>
>> Walt