[root at lab0-v3 ~]# mount -t nfs -o tcp,nfsvers=3 localhost:/images /mnt [root at lab0-v3 ~]# cd /mnt [root at lab0-v3 mnt]# time bash -c 'tar xf /root/linux-3.3.tar ; sync ; rm -rf linux-3.3' real 2m26.698s user 0m0.334s sys 0m6.943s On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:22 AM, David Coulson <david at davidcoulson.net> wrote: > > > On 3/20/12 2:47 AM, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >> >> I'm going to start off and say that I misstated, I must have been >> doing my *many-file* tests *inside* VM's running on top of glusterfs. >> I post a loopback test later this week. >> > Can you repeat the test using NFS rather than Fuse? I've seen a approx 2x > performance increase with 'small files' using NFS over Fuse, however I'm not > sure if it's just anecdotal, or actually a reality. > > David