[Gluster-users] Enterprise Application with O_DIRECT access

[Hideo Umemura(Max-T)]

Hi Amar-san,

Thank you for quick reply.
Is "glusterfs patched fuse" as you said fuse-2.7.3glfs10?
I tested glusterfs-2.0.0rc2 and fuse-2.7.3glfs10.
Or, is the patch for fuse kernel module made myself?

Regards,

hideo

Amar Tumballi wrote:
> With glusterfs patched fuse you should be able to work fine with 
> O_DIRECT flag. The default stock kernel module doesn't support it.
>
> Yes, by increasing the blocksize of the filesystem, few application 
> performance will increase significantly.
>
> Regards,
> Amar
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Hideo Umemura(Max-T) 
> <h.umemura at max-t.jp <mailto:h.umemura at max-t.jp>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     I am learning and evaluating a glusterfs for film/video editing
>     facilities.
>     Some major film/video editing realtime applications are using the
>     O_DIRECT file access for video/audio data files.
>     The GLFS client via fuse mechanism is disallow the open file with
>     O_DIRECT flag.
>     I made a little sample code for read a file with O_DIRECT flag, and
>     tried open the files on GLFS volumes.
>     It returned "invalid arg" when open the file. It is OK when open the
>     file without O_DIRECT flag.
>
>     Is there a reason to have to refuse Direct I/O by the application
>     though
>     it seems to use Direct I/O internally of GLFS?
>
>     Does someone have a problem same as me?
>     Let me know if you have any advise,plan in future or patch on this.
>
>     And, regarding the block size in fuse, I tried the optimization the
>     block size in client side for film/video applications.
>     When it was increased, the performance results is good.
>     I think that it is convenient if it can change the block size in mount
>     options.
>     What do you think?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Hideo.
>
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> -- 
> Amar Tumballi
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