[870] in testers
Re: SAVECORE and afs cache size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 24 20:57:51 1990
From: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 24 May 90 20:29:44 -0400.
Date: Thu, 24 May 90 20:57:17 EDT
The alternatives are:
1. Compute the cache size using free space minus kernel size, minus
physical memory size.
2. Fill the partition.
If AFS 3.0 handles the latter much more cleanly than I had thought,
then perhaps it is a viable option.
On the other hand, flushing all the files from the cache will get rid
of any sensitive files that might have been left there when the
workstation crashed.
What is keeping the cache on a public workstation going to buy us at
this point? Some time saved running sipb and gnu software? Only when
we start using AFS for system packs _for the user community_ is this
an important issue, as far as I can see. And I think that there are
still several problems -- this one included -- standing in the way of
that.
