Nginx, static files and local caching

[Chris Zimmerman]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Piotr Sikora <piotr.sikora at frickle.com>wrote:

> Shouldn't NFS be caching already?
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> Should it? It's remote location which can be modified by other systems.
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Yes it should. If it isn't your implementation is not working properly.



>  Given you have free ram available on the
>> nginx machine, it should be caching the files in disk cache. Why the
>> redundancy?
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> Well, for one, free local disk space is probably order of magnitude bigger
> than buffer cache.



I can't disagree with this, It's use as a remote to local filesystem cache
would be useful. Does it have stateful checks to determine if files are
changed?


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> Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora at frickle.com >
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