Andreas, ----- "Andreas Dilger" <[email protected]> wrote: > Secondly, with small files there is also the overhead of creating > the many small files on the MDS, which will likely take as long > as the RPCs being sent to the OSTs with data. There is not currently > a metadata writeback cache that allows files to be created only on > the client. That is something we are examining, but it is still > a ways off.
Ah yes of course. This is the performance bottleneck I'm seeing over a high latency link. Thanks for the clarification. Daire _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
