
GFS 논문에는 아래와 같은 내용이 나온다. Linux의 buffer cache를 믿고 file data를 cache하지 않는다고 한다.Neither the client nor the chunkserver caches file data. Client caches offer little benefit because most applications stream through huge files or have working sets too large to be cached. Not having them simplifies the client and the overall system by eliminating cache coherence issues. (Clients do cache metadata, howev..