GCACHE -- what's it for?

Geoff Fritz gfritz at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 09:26:10 PST 2008


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:01:26AM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:06:33PM -0700, Geoff Fritz wrote:
> > I noticed the presence of the geom_cache module recently.  Very little
> > available in the archives on what it's used for.
> > 
> 
> The commit message may be of some value to answer the "what" question:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/cache/g_cache.c#rev1.1

Yes, that was helpful.  I was way off base.

> Regarding the missing manpage, I'd recommand filing a PR (if one
> does not already exist).

I have done so.

Thanks.

-- Geoff


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