On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:03:54AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > from my observations redundancy is the biggest problem with NFS > and that its ability to efficiently serve up data is more than > ample.
Redundancy is certainly a problem, but lots of US HPC and distributed computing sites have severe scaling problems with NFS. High r/w traffic has killed several file servers in projects that we work with, and it sucks big time. I don't know anyone who's happy or excited or confident in their HPC NFS deployments; everyone I've talked to hopes for a real solution to this problem. ;) If the OP's use case involves lots of writes (especially from many clients), I'd be concerned about NFS' ability to keep up. Then again, I've had problems with pretty much all of the network filesystems (including AFS, though it's the least bad in my experience). I'm still waiting for Ceph[0] to mature (and to shed its linuxisms). ;) [0] http://ceph.sf.net/ -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | web:.......http://www.lfod.us/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*
