[OpenAFS] Speed of OpenAFS Fileserver

2007-07-20 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Now we got a GBit switch in our department and I want to test the speed of our AFS servers. With scp I gain speeds of 30 MB/Sec between a backup server and my client. With OpenAFS I gain max speed of 10 MB/sec from AFS fileserver 1 to my client

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs Now my boss want's me to use ext3, I would prefer reiser3 - difficult decision :-) . Regards, Frank ___ OpenAFS-info mailing

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Kim Kimball
Thanks for this, Frank. Kim Kimball Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs Now my boss want's me to use ext3, I would prefer reiser3 - difficult decision :-) . Regards, Frank

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Michael C Garrison
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs Now my boss want's me to use ext3, I would prefer reiser3 - difficult decision :-) . What version of OpenAFS did you test

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Stephan . Wiesand
Hi, On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, I did some benchmarks to find out, which filesystem is best: http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Instantafs/WhichFs thanks for sharing this. Are you reading linux-ide-arrays? There was a thread this week where someone pointed out

Re: [OpenAFS] Speed of OpenAFS Fileserver

2007-07-20 Thread Michael C Garrison
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Now we got a GBit switch in our department and I want to test the speed of our AFS servers. With scp I gain speeds of 30 MB/Sec between a backup server and my client. With OpenAFS I gain max speed of

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Michael C Garrison
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Sorry. It's 1.4.4 - I just updated the page. Cool. I imagine your XFS performance would improve greatly with the no fsync patch that's been discussed on here. And a few comments on reiser. If you ever need to do a fsck on it (which we have

Re: [OpenAFS] Feature request, sort of

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Simmons
On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Kim Kimball wrote: Why not restore the volume (restores to RW), replicate it (same server and partition) and then remove the RW? Mount the resulting readonly explicitly -- i.e. be sure to include the .readonly suffix in the fs mkm Works for me. Works

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing a backup volume

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Simmons
On Jul 20, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Michael C Garrison wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote: Sorry. It's 1.4.4 - I just updated the page. Cool. I imagine your XFS performance would improve greatly with the no fsync patch that's been discussed on here. And a few comments on

Re: [OpenAFS] Feature request, sort of

2007-07-20 Thread Kim Kimball
Steve Simmons wrote: On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Kim Kimball wrote: Why not restore the volume (restores to RW), replicate it (same server and partition) and then remove the RW? Mount the resulting readonly explicitly -- i.e. be sure to include the .readonly suffix in the fs mkm Works

Re: [OpenAFS] Feature request, sort of

2007-07-20 Thread Kim Kimball
Oh, I see, you're doing vos exa foo and not vos exa foo.readonly and getting the message Dump only information ... blah Missed the earlier part of the discussion -- why is this an issue? Kim Steve Simmons wrote: On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Kim Kimball wrote: Why not restore the volume