On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:41:35AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > Matt Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Could be. Given the long and sordid history of NFS, I prefer to not > > use it whenever there are practical alternatives. > > NFS is a fine protocol and works very well. However, traditionally the > Linux implementation of NFS has been of less than perfect quality. You > shouldn't confuse NFS with NFS on Linux.
It is exceedingly difficult to perform correct parallel I/O on NFS, let alone achieve high performance. NFSv4 promises to make this situation better. ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF Argonne National Lab, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
