CONFIG_CACHEFILES: Filesystem caching on files

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_CACHEFILES:

• prompt: Filesystem caching on files
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_NETFS_SUPPORT && CONFIG_FSCACHE && CONFIG_BLOCK
• defined in fs/cachefiles/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.30–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD
• modules built: cachefiles

Help text

This permits use of a mounted filesystem as a cache for other filesystems - primarily networking filesystems - thus allowing fast local disk to enhance the speed of slower devices.

See Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst for more information.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module cachefiles CONFIG_CACHEFILES : fs/cachefiles/Kconfig : "Filesystem caching on files" # in 2.6.30–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD

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• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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