From: "Roy M." Subject: Re: Is NFS v4 stable and recommend to use now? Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 01:34:51 +0800 Message-ID: References: <20081002171719.GA30408@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.173]:11970 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752502AbYJBRew (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:34:52 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so1206944wfd.4 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:34:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20081002171719.GA30408@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:17 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:49:50AM +0800, Roy M. wrote: > > If you're just doing big I/O to a few files, that may be all you care > about. If you're doing something more complicated then the situation > isn't well understood yet. > Do you mean for few files with large size stored in NFS, then maybe not benefit too much from NFS4, while if I have many files, need to fetch to client in parallel and in high concurrency, then it might be a good choice? (in fact, I also heard client side caching in v4 is better) Besides, can I say v4 is the recommended to be used in production right now? Thanks.