On 02/21/2011 12:05 PM, Brent A Nelson wrote: > Those who are looking for better metadata performance might want to see > if MooseFS fits their needs. It uses a metadata server which caches the > entire filesystem metadata in RAM, so it seems to be very responsive. I > have my home directory on GlusterFS and I did a quick trial on MooseFS. > du on GlusterFS (native FUSE, not NFS) was 1 minute 8 seconds, du on > MooseFS was 2 seconds. du isn't metadata intensive. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615