On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:18:33AM +0000, Gary L. Grobe wrote: > > >>The more likely explanation is that you just switched to a more recent > >>distro where "sync" (as opposed to "async") is the option. Depending on > >>workload, "async" may improve performance a great deal, at the expense > >>of possible data corruption on server reboot! > >> > >>If you're doing a lot of writing and using NFSv2, then switching to > >>NFSv3 may give you performance close to the "async" performance without > >>the corruption worries. > > Just a small update about our rollback I need to correct. Turns out our problem has been solved by going with the 2.6.20-r10 of the gentoo-sources patched kernel. Although gentoo marks this as unstable for amd64, it's working fine. I've made no other changes than going back a few versions on the kernel and adjusting the .config w/ the same settings. > > Tomorrow I'll likely give the next marked stable patched gentoo-sources kernel another try which was 2.6.24-r10 and recheck my configs and try to gather anything else I can gather from it. Sounds good, thanks. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
