Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932332AbXB1Nep (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:34:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932334AbXB1Neo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:34:44 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:53653 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932332AbXB1Neo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:34:44 -0500 Message-ID: <45E5853A.3060901@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:35:54 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florin Iucha CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1: CIFS cheers, NFS4 jeers References: <20070226064500.GZ29073@iucha.net> <45E4EAA7.2090007@tmr.com> <20070228040345.GL29073@iucha.net> In-Reply-To: <20070228040345.GL29073@iucha.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1496 Lines: 41 Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:36:23PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Florin Iucha wrote: >> >>> Hello, it's me and my 70 GB of photos again. >>> >>> I have tested both CIFS and NFSv4 clients in kernel 2.6.20-rc1 . CIFS >>> passed with flying colors and NFSv4 stalled after 7 GB. >>> > > >> Neil has been diddling NFS, I did some light testing with 2.6.20-git14 >> with 190GB of mp3 and mpg files (library of congress folk music) without >> hangs. Just "did it work" tests, copy 20-30GB to server, do md5 on the >> data pulled back from the server. >> >> Didn't hang, performance testing later. >> > > 2.6.20-rcX used to copy all files then hang on certain operations that > I think used the VFS. 2.6.21-rc1 stalls the NFS transfer itself after > several GB. The data was never corrupted. > > Have you tried copying _ALL_ 190 GB to the server? No, but as noted I was doing 20-30GB, so if "several" is a small number I'm not seeing that behavior. I'm using a Gbit connection if that is not the same as your setup. I have additional testing queued for time available this week. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/