On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 13:17 +1000, RR wrote: > thanks for the response. Yeah I have an isolated SAN where the iSCSI > targets reside and is serviced by stacked Cisco GigE switches and > there's nothing on this network besides iSCSI traffic. > > You didn't say anything about if this can be an NFS type partition Qdisk needs O_DIRECT access to a block device; it doesn't use file system semantics. It might work to do loopback-over-NFS, but I really think it's a poor idea at best. I suppose that technically, if it works with O_DIRECT over loopback-on-nfs, it should also work with a flat file on NFS, but neither case has been tested... > (but that would probably not qualify as a non-network path) although > NFS also uses a fair bit of CPU but I have seen the CPU usage on a > Dual-Xeon 3.6Ghz computer go upto 44% > (is there a way in Windows to > see usage per virtual CPU?) I have no idea. ;) -- Lon -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
