[Gluster-users] Does brick fs play a large role on listing files client side?

[Anand Avati]

To utilize FUSE's readdirplus, we need at least
http://review.gluster.org/3905 and a couple more dependencies to make it.
They had slipped down in priority for the short term. If you have interest
to act as an early tester I can refresh those patches for you..

Avati

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Adam Tygart <mozes at k-state.edu> wrote:

> I have compiled and installed the 3.7 kernel with this patch, and I do not
> see a difference, at least on a client only level with glusterfs 3.2.7. I
> will attempt to do some client/server testing with some repurposed machines
> in the next day or two. I hope to test with 3.2.7 and 3.3.1; the only thing
> I am still unsure about is if I need some sort of mount parameter to
> activate this feature.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Adam
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Adam Tygart <mozes at k-state.edu> wrote:
>
>> In response to Whit, this patch hasn't made it into a kernel release.
>>
>> As a partial response to myself: For others looking to patch their own
>> kernel source, it won't apply to anything older than 3.7-rc1 without the
>> incorporation of a much larger uapi patchset (probably all history here,
>> and then some:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=history;f=include/uapi). I consider this too much of a change to incorporate into my running
>> system.
>>
>> --
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Adam Tygart <mozes at k-state.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, if we were to apply this patch to an existing kernel tree would
>>> GlusterFS automatically make use of it? Or would we need a special mount
>>> option?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Whit Blauvelt <
>>> whit.gluster at transpect.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Avanti,
>>>>
>>>> For those of us willing compile kernels when there's a distinct
>>>> advantage,
>>>> has this patch made it into a kernel release? If so, which?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Whit
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 04:35:39PM -0800, Anand Avati wrote:
>>>> > Support for READDIRPLUS in FUSE improves directory listing performance
>>>> > significantly. You will have to hold on till
>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/
>>>> > kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse.git;a=commit;h=
>>>> > 81aecda8796572e490336680530d53a10771c2a9 trickles down into your
>>>> distro kernel
>>>> > however.
>>>> >
>>>> > Avati
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>>>
>>
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