On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:55:17PM -0500, Spencer Shepler wrote: > On Fri, Joe Little wrote: > > Thanks. I'm playing with it now, trying to get the most succinct test. > > This is one thing that bothers me: Regardless of the backend, it > > appears that a delete of a large tree (say the linux kernel) over NFS > > takes forever, but its immediate when doing so locally. Is delete over > > NFS really take such a different code path? > > Yes. As mentioned in my other email, the NFS protocol requires > that operations like REMOVE, RMDIR, CREATE have the filesystem > metadata written to stable storage/disk before sending a response > to the client. That is not required of local access and therefore > the disparity between the two.
So then multi-threading rm/rmdir on the client-side would help, no? Are there/should there be async versions of creat(2)/mkdir(2)/ rmdir(2)/link(2)/unlink(2)/...? Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
