[Gluster-users] NFS with UCARP vs. GlusterFS mount question

[Christian Fischer]

On Friday 10 December 2010 07:12:47 Craig Carl wrote:
> Christian -
>      For large files the Gluster native client will perform better than
> NFS, but they are both good options.

Thanks Carl.
I thought nobody will answer ;-)

What are large files from your point of view?

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Craig
> 
> -->
> Craig Carl
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Gluster
> 
> On 12/07/2010 11:39 PM, Christian Fischer wrote:
> > Morning Folks,
> > 
> > should I prefer NFS with UCARP or native GlusterFS mounts for serving the
> > system images to XCP?
> > 
> > Which one performes better over 1G network links?
> > 
> > NFS is probaby easier to setup due to existing tools like rpcinfo and
> > showmount, both are used inside the storage container code, and there is
> > some code for NFS, not for GlusterFS, except I write one.
> > 
> > UCARP has the disadvantage that the cluster IP is moved away from dead
> > systems, not from dead gluster server daemons, IMHO.
> > 
> > What do you think about that?
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > Christian
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