[Gluster-users] RDMA not fully supported by GlusterFS 3.3.0 ?!

2012-07-16 Thread Philippe Muller
Hi RedHat GlusterFS users, Last week-end, I worked on a GlusterFS cluster upgrade, from 3.0.3 to 3.3.0. We were using hand-made volume files defining 2 volumes, a distributed one, and a replicated-distribute one; both using the transport-type ib-verbs option. One of our objectives was to use

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-16 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Say, is it possible to compile a kernel without whatever part of its NFS support competes with Gluster's locking? Whit On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:14:27AM -0400, Rajesh Amaravathi wrote: I hope you do realize that two NLM implementations of the same version cannot operate simultaneously in the

[Gluster-users] Solaris 10 client NFS performance very poor

2012-07-16 Thread Dan Bretherton
Dear All, I am having a lot of trouble accessing GlusterFS 3.2.6 volumes from Solaris 10 NFS clients. Volumes can be mounted but I/O performance is so poor that the volumes are practically unusable. Doing cd or ls can take a very long time and often hangs, with repeated errors like the

Re: [Gluster-users] Solaris 10 client NFS performance very poor

2012-07-16 Thread Anand Avati
There were a lot of changes in NFS filehandle management in 3.3.0. Can you check if these performance issue has been addressed with those changes? Avati On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Dan Bretherton d.a.brether...@reading.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, I am having a lot of trouble accessing

Re: [Gluster-users] Solaris 10 client NFS performance very poor

2012-07-16 Thread Dan Bretherton
Hello Avati, Thanks for your quick response. I had planned to upgrade to 3.3 at some point, mainly to take advantage of the NFS memory leak fix. I am worried about upgrading after bad experiences with 3.1.0 and 3.2.0. Does anyone have any experience of upgrading from 3.2.6 to 3.3.0? -Dan.

Re: [Gluster-users] RDMA not fully supported by GlusterFS 3.3.0 ?!

2012-07-16 Thread Joe Landman
On 07/16/2012 12:16 PM, Philippe Muller wrote: Here is what I found: - On page 123 of the GlusterFS Administration Guide 3.3.0, a small note saying: NOTE: with 3.3.0 release, transport type 'rdma' and 'tcp,rdma' are not fully supported. I don't see this indicated in the 3.2.x series, though

Re: [Gluster-users] RDMA not fully supported by GlusterFS 3.3.0 ?!

2012-07-16 Thread Anand Avati
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Joe Landman land...@scalableinformatics.com wrote: On 07/16/2012 12:16 PM, Philippe Muller wrote: Here is what I found: - On page 123 of the GlusterFS Administration Guide 3.3.0, a small note saying: NOTE: with 3.3.0 release, transport type 'rdma' and

Re: [Gluster-users] RDMA not fully supported by GlusterFS 3.3.0 ?!

2012-07-16 Thread Joe Landman
On 07/16/2012 03:39 PM, Anand Avati wrote: It only means we had to push out RDMA support to 3.3.1 (or 3.3.2) for internal resource scheduling reasons. Ok, thanks. Avati -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web :