From: Dan Stromberg Subject: RE: Some code, and a question Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:02:31 -0700 Message-ID: <1126112551.16701.19.camel@seki.nac.uci.edu> References: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C611308539F8B@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg Banks , strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ED3KC-0006ov-8H for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:03:04 -0700 Received: from dcs.nac.uci.edu ([128.200.34.32]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1ED3KB-0000P9-2J for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:03:04 -0700 To: "Lever, Charles" In-Reply-To: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C611308539F8B@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:34 -0700, Lever, Charles wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:02 +1000, Greg Banks wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:39:57PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > > > > > > > OK, I know NFS isn't usually thought of as the fastest > > protocol under > > > > the sun, > > > > > > Why would you think that? NFSv3 can be very efficient at moving > > > bits from point A to point B. > > > > You mean aside from the troublesome back-and-forthing on a > > high latency network? > > NFSv4 delegation will help there. Cool. > 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. Agreed, on huge files, NFS isn't that lackluster. On a related note, I heard a rumor that there's going to be some sort of proxy released by some vendor (the guy who described was under an NDA) that should be able to greatly reduce back-and-forthing in NFS... It sounded very much like with NX does for X11 if you set it up with a proxy. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs