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CacheFS is a family of software technologies designed to speed up distributed file system file access for networked computers. They store copies (caches) of files on secondary memory, typically a local hard disk, so that if a file is accessed again, it can be fetched locally at much higher speeds than networks typically allow. Wikipedia →

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