Is it possible to use bcache in front of an NFS volume?

kogepathic · on Nov 22, 2017

> Is it possible to use bcache in front of an NFS volume?

No, because bcache only works for a block device, whereas NFS presents itself as a pseudo filesystem (NFS) to the target.

You could however use bcache as a local accelerator for a remote iSCSI target.

khc · on Nov 22, 2017

No but you can already use FS-cache?

ptman · on Nov 22, 2017

fs-cache / cachefilesd seems to still be buggy. was it even deprecated?

khc · on Nov 22, 2017

Not that I know of. You can also try https://github.com/kahing/catfs which I wrote recently but I don't promise it's not buggy :-)