Hi Kirit We track RHEL sources more or less, and we are unlikely to add custom patches unless they are absolutely required for features for Openfiler's intended function. While I can accept that facilities like rsync over SSH maybe used for file transfers, patches which help with performance in this area really need to be considered upstream by either the OpenSSH project itself or RHEL before it'll trickle down into Openfiler. We ignore many Samba, NFS and disk subsystem patches too. Over the years with Openfiler (Openfiler is many years old now :) we have learnt from experience to be conservative and provide a reliable platform. Of course performance is important, and your best bet is to get it incorporated upstream so it streams down. You can also build a patched RPM on RHEL 4.x and use it in Openfiler 2.x (they are binary compatible) for your personal needs.
Mukund Kirit Basu wrote: > I'm planning to run openfiler in a gigabit > environment. In my current setup, runing tests like > iperf show me some serious bandwidth possibilities, > however when it comes to day to day work I most always > rely on ssh connections of all sorts (scp/sftp, rsync > or samba over ssh tunnels etc) > > default ssh seems to be tuned for low bandwidth > networks (i.e. 16kb window size etc), however this > particular patch really allows for some serious > bandwidth transfers if your network allows it. > http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ > > They say in that page that the patch is 'experimental' > however known to work quite well. I'm wondering if its > worthwhile for distros like openfiler to consider > including this patch. After all I'm guessing a large > percentage of your users will be running openfiler on > good sized machines, fast networks and basically will > demand good throughput. > perhaps this patch could get into say an > 'experimental' tree? > > Any thoughts? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users > _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
