Just a question now: If you mount the backend disks with noatime option, will glusterfs then drop it as well? regards Einar On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 08:40 +0530, Anand Avati wrote: > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel -- Einar Gautun einar.gautun@xxxxxxxxxxx Statens kartverk | Norwegian Mapping Authority 3507 Hønefoss | NO-3507 Hønefoss, Norway Ph +47 32118372 Fax +47 32118101 Mob +47 92692662
