setting up nfs

[Jack Coats]

Even though Network Appliance is high $$ equipment, they have some
good white papers available on their web site about NFS and CIFS
I/O of various kinds.  Even some 'benchmarks' that compare raw I/O
to their NFS mounted I/O using their WAFFLE file system (internal
to Netapp use only, it looks 'normal' to the outside world).

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-discuss at Blu.Org [mailto:owner-discuss at Blu.Org]On Behalf Of
Joel Gwynn
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:00 PM
To: discuss at Blu.Org
Subject: Re: setting up nfs


Thanks for all the educational responses.  I get it, I get it.  I'm
looking into
openafs.

Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I would have thought that it would even be longer. Assuming your host
> provider's LAN was 100Mbps, and T1 is 1.5Mbps.
> But, not only are you bottolenecking the diskio, you are throwing
> significant additional traffic onto the slower line which affects
other users
> of that line.
>
> When properly configured and managed, NFS (or more generically a
> network file system) can be very efficient. Your file server itself
should
> have relatively fast drives and relatively low use for other purposes.
Users
> should be spread around different subnets, but the server should have
> multiple NICs such that network disk I/O does not cross routers.
>
> On 26 Jul 2001, at 11:26, Scott Lanning wrote:
>
> > At work, our host provider temporarily switched a development
machine
> > to use NFS over a T1, and as a result MySQL queries would take 10
> > times longer than usual (or longer). And when trying to list
> > directories, it would occasionally give NFS errors indicating
> > that NFS wasn't responding.
>
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
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