[Gluster-users] NFS vs native fuse

[Kingsley]

On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 13:28 +1000, Dan Mons wrote:
> Specific to Linux, the NFS client uses standard filesystem caching
> which has a few pros and cons of it's own.
> 
> Native GlusterFS uses up application space RAM and is a hard-set
> number that you must define.  In our studio, our standard rollout is a
> 32GB RAM workstation, so native GlusterFS clients are told to use
> quite a bit of RAM for cache.  When we connect up smaller VMs, often
> they have less RAM overall than we assign just for cache, and as such
> use NFS instead.

Thanks Dan, I had not realised that. Useful to know.

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Cheers,
Kingsley.