[Gluster-users] new to gluster, is this possible?

[John Mark Walker]

----- Original Message -----
> One thing to be aware of - which kernel version you're using and the fuse
> module included in it. If it supports readdirplus on Fuse, the performance
> increases quite a bit on read-heavy workloads:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/532705/
> 
> I don't know if CentOS 6.4 has it backported or not, but 6.5 will. Likewise,
> recent versions of Ubuntu and Fedora with kernel version 3.8+ will have it.
> 

Reading further, it appears that CentOS/EL/RHEL 6.x have supported this since last November:

http://zid-lux1.uibk.ac.at/linux/rpm2html/centos/6/centosplus/x86_64/Packages/kernel-devel-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64.html

-JM