[Samba] Can CIFS files in read only mode be cached by client?

Aaron Boxer boxerab at gmail.com
Mon May 23 17:24:15 MDT 2011


Hello!

I am writing a Linux server, and I want to pre-fetch a number of CIFS files
and cache locally. The files are on a CIFS share mounted as read only.

I was planning on opening the file, calling
posix_fadvise(........,POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED)
on the file descriptor, and then closing the file.

Will this work? Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks!!

Aaron


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