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

[Jeff McKeon]

On 2013-10-07 10:52, Jeff McKeon wrote:
> 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.

at a quick look it appears the fuse version for OpenSUSE 12.3 is 2.9.2

-- 
Best Regards,

Jeff McKeon
Ashcor Technologies LLC
(973) 886-2772