[Gluster-devel] gluster questions
Brent A Nelson
brent at phys.ufl.edu
Wed Feb 6 19:56:02 UTC 2008
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Brent,
>
> This sounds like exactly what I was looking for. Now a couple of more
> questions:
>
> Is the TLA code considered production ready? OR is this testing code that
> may still have some bugs? Since I will be using this for home directories in
> a research environment, I need something that is stable.
>
Theoretically, the TLAs could have bugs and need further testing. In
practice, they generally seem better than the last stable release, as they
mostly contain bug fixes. I personally believe that the recent TLAs have
been very good and would use them over 1.3.7 (quite a few bug fixes have
been made since then). However, the developers have indicated that the
official, stable 1.3.8 release, from recent TLAs, should be right around
the corner.
> What does disabling direct-io do and how does it affect glusterfs and NFS? I
> looked it up on the client commandline options page of the wiki, but that
> didn't really give an in depth explanation.
>
Disabling direct-io will probably lower performance but should have no
other observable effect, as far as I understand.
Thanks,
Brent
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