Weird - Actually slower than fuse. Does the 'nolock' nfs mount option make a difference? On 3/21/12 1:22 PM, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > [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