SV: [Gluster-devel] Re-exporting NFS to vmware
Gordan Bobic
gordan at bobich.net
Thu Jan 6 17:00:06 UTC 2011
Fredrik Widlund wrote:
> If you're re-exporting a gluster filesystem, the re-exporting node will act as a proxy. As a concept this is fairly natural, and in itself it shouldn't be a problem.
It's natural, but Sylar was saying it's inefficient - which it is,
because you end up hammering one node for all the files, including the
ones that aren't on it.
> And I did say that it is possible to re-export a FUSE filesystem, not impossible.
IIRC it required fuse patches that weren't in the mainline, and when I
tried it, it caused reliability problems and some corruption issues that
went away when I switched to unfsd. Unless I missed something recently,
I don't think the stance on kernel nfs exporting fuse file systems has
changed, but I'd love to hear otherwise.
Gordan
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