> > I'm wondering if it would help the performance for small files if I add > the noatime option in the fstab for the gluster mount on the client > machines (it's already there on the servers, of course). > > So basically, could a setting like > > /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol /mnt/gluster1 glusterfs > defaults,noatime 0 0 > > be useful? Or is atime updates none of the clients business? Currently the option would not help. atime is updated bo storage/posix 'naturally'. Other translators which do caching (like read-ahead) have options to send dummy 1-byte read to update the atime when the requests hits the cache. avati
