Hi developers, I know that the following question may not be relative to Ceph but this confuses me a lot. I am testing the function of re-exporting nfs by command "dd" without using buffer. That means I would like my data to be written to Ceph DFS directly without passing by the buffer of client or nfs-client. Here is my test architecture. Hope you could understand what I am trying to express.....:p ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ nfs ceph protocol Client <------------>Ceph-Client <-------------------> Ceph DFS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I used the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ceph/test bs=64k count=10000 oflag=dsync" My purpose was to write the data from the client to Ceph DFS through Ceph-client. Ceph DFS was mounted by Ceph-client using Ceph protocol and Ceph-client was mounted by client using nfs protocol. I know that my dd command with argument oflag=dsync would write the data to Ceph-client without using buffer on the client. But I want my Ceph-client could also just pass the data to Ceph DFS without using its buffer. So.....is there any way I can run my scenario? Or in other words, is there any method I can assure that Ceph-client won't do the buffer task itself? Thank you~~ -- Best Regards, Sylar Shen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html