Add cachefilesd deamon to increase nfs/samba performance

[jvandesande]

I think it's a good idea to (optionally) use the cachefilesd deamon to give an extra boost to NFS and SMB performance (via the "fsc" mount options). See this boot2docker issue for installation instructions inside the boot2docker VM:

boot2docker/boot2docker#581 (comment)

[gnoesiboe]

+1

[lmakarov]

Here's a feature branch with cachefilesd for NFS and SMB
https://github.com/blinkreaction/boot2docker-vagrant/tree/feature/cachefilesd

Use nfs (Mac) or smb2 (Windows) synced folder types and set cachefilesd: true in vagrant.yml

In my own testing cachefilesd gave about 7.5% performance gain with NFS on Mac.

With SMB on Windows it did not do any good unfortunately - 6% slower when enabled.
What is worse - it does not seem to be reliable. My console would stop responding after 3 out of 5 test runs.

Test it and let me know your results.

[jvandesande]

Thanks, I will try the feature branch and let you know what my experience is.

[Meuk]

@jvandesande any progress?

[jvandesande]

I've tested this a long time ago. From what I can recall, my experience with Windows was the same as @lmakarov , it was not reliable. I think @gnoesiboe tested it on Mac OS.