Re: [Gluster-users] UDP instead of TCP?

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:39:11 -0700

In general link speeds are fast enough that TCP is preferred for NFS. The UDP transport is a vestige of running NFS over network connections that were slower than the disk they would read and write from nowadays the reverse is generally true and TCP is the safer transport method.



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On Sep 23, 2013 14:50, Jiri Hoogeveen <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

We use vSphere 4 / vCenter in combination with glusterfs and NFSv3 over tcp, and for use it works.

Grtz, Jiri
On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:37 PM, RedShift <[email protected]> wrote:

> How does that impact compatibility with vcenter? ESXi uses TCP NFS mounts...
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> From: "Jake G." <[email protected]>
> To: "James" <[email protected]>
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> Darn! I was wanting to use gluster with vcenter.
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> From: James <[email protected]>
> To: Jake G. <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 3:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] UDP instead of TCP?
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> Gluster UDP NFS support doesn't exist at the moment.
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> Use TCP instead.
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> James
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> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Jake G. < [email protected] > wrote:
>> Is it possible to create a volume that uses UDP instead of TCP?
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>> I could but wrong but don't most NFS connections run over UDP?
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>> Thanks!
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