Re: unfsd scalability issues

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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:36 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/01/12 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> > I believe that unfsd (http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/  ) now does have
> > multi-threaded capability and as such should be fairly well scalable. I
> am
> > using it on CentOS 6.2 and it seems to become all but unusable when more
> > then 3-4 users connect to it. Is that normal? What sort of experience
> have
> > other people had?
>
> yeesh, wtf ?
>
>     latest version: 0.9.22    2009-01-05
>
> WHY?!??!   what problem is this supposed to solve over the built in
> native Linux NFS, which supports a lot more than just NFSv3?
>
>
> maybe in 2003, when Linux NFS was sketchy, this made sense.
>
>
> --
> john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
> santa cruz ca                         mid-left coast
>
>
>
> John,

The native NFS only supports the local file system (on the local disk).
What we have here is an NFS gateway to a distributed file system, in our
case MooseFS ( http://www.moosefs.org/ ).

Boris.
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