Update - Oracle has implemented a similar optimization as Linux has, so now VFS layer will check if an object already exists and if it does it won't even call a fs-specific callback. AFS and NFS benefit most. This is in Solaris 11 + SRU17, and will be part of 11.2 release as well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Milkowski [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 23 January 2014 11:38 > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: mkdir() performance on AFS client > > Hi, > > Recently I came across an issue where 'make install' which was > installing software to AFS was taking *much* more time on a Solaris > client than on Linux client. The issue turned out to be a lack of > optimization on VFS layer in Solaris, and VOP_MKDIR in AFS isn't > optimized for it either (on Linux it doesn't have to be). This can be > mitigated though by changing default setting for AFS file server. > > For more details see - http://milek.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/mkdir- > performance.html > > > Best regards, > Robert Milkowski _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
