On 2013-09-29 14:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Benny Halevy wrote: >> The following patchset implements an extension to nfsd >> providing a complete minimal pnfs server exporting >> DLM-based clustered file systems such as GFS2 or OCFS2. > > Does this actually buy us anything by now? Last time I saw numbers for > this implementation it was slower than an active/passive setup over > those filesystem due to the way their cluster locking works. > Was this for write sharing or read only? As far as I understand, the share locks do not cause arbitration and they do provide bandwidth scalability via multiple nodes. That said, it is worth measuring. Benny -- 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
