[Gluster-devel] This is going to be a really dumb question probably but...

[Amar S. Tumballi]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see "option transport-type ib-verbs/server" and there was something
> in the documentation about using ibverbs for faster performance.
>
Yes, Infiniband is designed with low latency in mind.

>
> Can I use it interchangably with "option transport-type tcp/server"?
> If I dont have infiniband is this still some kind of communications
> library I can use over tcp/ip? I guess dont understand if ibverbs is
> directly related to inifiniband or if it is something else.
>
Its directly related to IB, and you can't use it over gig/e. (though you can
use tcp transport over IB, using IPoIB module).

Regards,

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