Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:40:38PM +0100, Sean Brisbane wrote: > There is a slight performance related reason for exporting disk partitions > individually, the performance boost is server-side as Paul says. The > advantage is that the no_subtree_check can be used without any additional > security

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-28 Thread Frank Thommen
On the server side, the export is defined for /export/base, not for /export/base/x. But I see the points. It seems, that we should probably revisit our export/mount setup :-) frank On 07/28/2016 12:40 AM, Sean Brisbane wrote: There is a slight performance related reason for exporting

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-28 Thread Frank Thommen
On 07/28/2016 12:21 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Frank Thommen wrote: Hello, does it in any respect (throughput/performance, cpu load, I/O load, resilience, ...) matter, if one mounts subdirectories of an NFS (v3) export into separate directories or if one just mounts the

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-27 Thread Sean Brisbane
There is a slight performance related reason for exporting disk partitions individually, the performance boost is server-side as Paul says. The advantage is that the no_subtree_check can be used without any additional security risk. It is probably the case that the /export/base/a is a partition,

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Frank Thommen wrote: Hello, does it in any respect (throughput/performance, cpu load, I/O load, resilience, ...) matter, if one mounts subdirectories of an NFS (v3) export into separate directories or if one just mounts the parent directory? I.e. like this: server:

[CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Hello, does it in any respect (throughput/performance, cpu load, I/O load, resilience, ...) matter, if one mounts subdirectories of an NFS (v3) export into separate directories or if one just mounts the parent directory? I.e. like this: server:/export/base/a -> /mnt/a