Craig Tierney wrote:
Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 05:13, Bruce Allen wrote:
I'd like to know the fastest that anyone has seen an NFS server run,
over
either a 10Gb/s ethernet link or a handful of link aggregated
(channel-bonded) Gb/s ethernet lines.
This would be with a small number of clients making large file
sequential
reads from the same NFS host/server. Please assume that the NFS server
has 'infinitely fast' disks.
First, don't hijack threads, can't you guys have any mercy on us with
thread capable e-mail clients? ;-)
I do think that you could get NFS up over the 100 MiB/sec mark, but I
also think it would be alot easier with lustre (www.lustre.org) since
then you could use a few GigE connected servers and not depend on
extreme speed and tuning on one single server...
Lustre would not be easier. NFS is supported on virtually all
operating systems. Also, it has been around a lot longer and is more
stable. And if you want to do
something more than read and write large sequential files, you better
stick with NFS (or look at
other less mature distributed filesystems). Lustre (and most HPC
filesystems)
Sorry to follow up my own post. I meant to say that there are other options
on the market that would provide better data performance than Lustre. They
are less mature filesystems than NFS. I didn't mean to imply that Lustre
was mature.
(Rest deleted)
Craig
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