From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: Some code, and a question
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:34:15 -0700
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Cc: <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>, "Greg Banks" <gnb@sgi.com>
To: "Dan Stromberg" <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>
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> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:02 +1000, Greg Banks wrote:=20
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:39:57PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > >=20
> > > OK, I know NFS isn't usually thought of as the fastest=20
> protocol under
> > > the sun,
> >=20
> > Why would you think that?  NFSv3 can be very efficient at moving
> > bits from point A to point B.
>=20
> You mean aside from the troublesome back-and-forthing on a=20
> high latency network?

NFSv4 delegation will help there.

but on a data-intensive workload (ie mostly reads and writes and very
few metadata operations) NFS can be quite as fast as the underlying
network and the server's file system will allow.


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