On 09/26/2011 04:46 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: > Thanks for the info. Might try that, but I still need NFS for other systems > and having used it for almost 30 years am a bit used to it ! glusterfs and nfs mix nicely - you can use the native glusterfs client (I do), or you can use an nfs client to access the glusterfs server. You can export a folder using both an nfs server and a glusterfs server at the same time, which is nice for a gradual migration. > mounting /home and /data). The only real issue has been performance over > an OpenVPN connection over ADSL, but that is not too surprising > (although an ls -l takes > significantly longer that it really should) and this performance issue > when writing multiple files. I use glusterfs over openvpn + cable modem, and it seems much more responsive than nfs ever was (judged using "ls -l"). But I haven't benchmarked it objectively. > Does gluserfs support client side file and attribute caching > (cachefilesd is used with NFS) ? I'm not sure about that... Anyway... it sure solved a lot of stability problems for me. glusterfs deserves to be better known as a reasonable NFS alternative. - Mike -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
