On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:44:54PM +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
The structural problem with NFS is that a timeout is required on every request. There's no global state, so every attempted read incurs the same timeout penalty. I believe this is not a problem with AFS:
http://www.openafs.org/pages/doc/UserGuide/auusg004.htm#HDRWQ17
Has anyone inspected what the potential gains and losses might be to moving to something like AFS, GFS, Coda, etc?
Cheers, -- jra