First readable child... Isn't this the first brick in the subvolume ?<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451018085"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451018311">David, you just want to skip the lookups and you need gluster to just serve the file, right ?</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451066739"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451066977">I think that you can play a little bit with md-cache. There is a nice article (requires RH dev or real subscription): <a id="linkextractor__1627451299004" data-yahoo-extracted-link="true" href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3019721" class="lEnhancr_1627451301562">https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3019721</a></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451299037"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451299229">Just a short quotation from that article:</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451421104"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451421339">Operations/Workload that are benefited:</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451421339">- Create, delete, ls (recursive), chmod, rename, du, and find will show marked improvement.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451433300"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451427659">- Directory enumerations with SMB have shown up to 8x improvement and similar tests with FUSE have also shown up to 2x improvement.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451421339">- Small file creates show up to 2x improvement. This important caching enhancement is likely to improve access performance of tiered volumes as well.Testing has shown up to 3x improvements in small-file read performance.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451424444"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451421541"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451300654">Best Regards,</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1627451307983">Strahil Nikolov<br> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 5:50, David Cunningham</div><div><dcunningham@voisonics.com> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> ________<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Community Meeting Calendar:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Schedule -<br clear="none">Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC<br clear="none">Bridge: <a shape="rect" href="https://meet.google.com/cpu-eiue-hvk" target="_blank">https://meet.google.com/cpu-eiue-hvk</a><br clear="none">Gluster-users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" target="_blank">https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><br clear="none"> </div> </blockquote></div>