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

Jeff McKeon jeff.mckeon at ashcortechnologies.com
Mon Oct 7 14:52:24 UTC 2013


On 2013-10-07 10:44, John Mark Walker wrote:
> ----- 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
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John,

thanks for the reply.. the only problem is, my servers aren't CentOS 
they're OpenSUSE....

I'll have to look into fuse (this is something new to me) and it's 
kernel version on OpenSUSE.

-- 
Best Regards,

Jeff



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