--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With native NFS there'll be no need to first mount a > glusterFS > > FUSE based volume and then export it as NFS. The way > it has been developed is that > > any glusterfs volume in the volfile can be exported > using NFS by adding > > an NFS volume over it in the volfile. This is > something that will become > > clearer from the sample vol files when 3.0.1 comes > out. > > It may be worth checking the performance of that solution > vs the performance of the standalone unfsd unbound to > portmap/mountd over mounted glfs volumes, as I discovered > today that the performance feels very similar to native > knfsd and server-side AFR, but without the fuse.ko > complications of the former and the buggyness of the latter > (e.g. see bug 186: http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=186 > - that bug has been driving me nuts since before 2.0.0 was > released) > > I'd hate to see this be another wasted effort like booster > when there is a solution that already works. I don't think it would be wasted if it includes NLM since unfsd does not do locking! -Martin
