On 2013-10-07 10:52, Jeff McKeon wrote: > On 2013-10-07 10:44, John Mark Walker wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> One thing to be aware of - which kernel version you're using and the >>> fuse >>> module included in it. If it supports readdirplus on Fuse, the >>> performance >>> increases quite a bit on read-heavy workloads: >>> >>> http://lwn.net/Articles/532705/ >>> >>> I don't know if CentOS 6.4 has it backported or not, but 6.5 will. >>> Likewise, >>> recent versions of Ubuntu and Fedora with kernel version 3.8+ will >>> have it. >>> >> >> Reading further, it appears that CentOS/EL/RHEL 6.x have supported >> this since last November: >> >> http://zid-lux1.uibk.ac.at/linux/rpm2html/centos/6/centosplus/x86_64/Packages/kernel-devel-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64.html >> >> -JM >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > John, > > thanks for the reply.. the only problem is, my servers aren't CentOS > they're OpenSUSE.... > > I'll have to look into fuse (this is something new to me) and it's > kernel version on OpenSUSE. at a quick look it appears the fuse version for OpenSUSE 12.3 is 2.9.2 -- Best Regards, Jeff McKeon Ashcor Technologies LLC (973) 886-2772