[Gluster-users] NFS Mount vs. Gluster mount

Atin Mukherjee amukherj at redhat.com
Mon Jul 6 03:50:08 UTC 2015



On 07/06/2015 08:35 AM, Jordan R. Willis wrote:
>   Hello,
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> I have been using NFS to mount my gluster volumes and they have been working pretty well. But I just realized how easy it is to mount volumes using glusterfs.
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> mount -t glusterfs glusterserver:/myvol /mymount
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> I used NFS because I was just so used to it. So I was wondering will I have to look out for any performance hits, pitfalls or gotchas if I just use a glusterfs mount? I was looking for some documentation comparing them but couldn’t find anything except (https://joejulian.name/blog/nfs-mount-for-glusterfs-gives-better-read-performance-for-small-files/
If you are using the latest bits i.e. 3.7 then let me tell you that we
have improved significantly on the small file with introduction to multi
threaded e-poll.
> )
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> - Jordan
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~Atin


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