[Gluster-devel] How to enable FUSE kernel cache about dentry and inode?

[Ravishankar N]

On 09/01/2016 01:04 PM, Keiviw wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have found that GlusterFS client(mounted by FUSE) didn't cache 
> metadata like dentries and inodes. I have installed GlusterFS 3.6.0 in 
> nodeA and nodeB, and the brick1 and brick2 was in nodeA, then in 
> nodeB, I mounted the volume to /mnt/glusterfs by FUSE. From my test, I 
> excuted 'ls /mnt/glusterfs' in nodeB, and found that the memory didn't 
> use at all. Here are my questions:
>     1. In fuse kernel, the author set some attributes to control the 
> time-out about dentry and inode, in other words, the fuse kernel 
> supports metadata cache, but in my test, dentries and inodes were not 
> cached. WHY?
>     2. Were there some options in GlusterFS mounted to local to enable 
> the metadata cache in fuse kernel?
>
>
You can tweak the attribute-timeout and entry-timeout seconds while 
mounting the volume. Default is 1 second for both.  `man 
mount.glusterfs` lists various mount options.
-Ravi
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