[Beowulf] Help for terrible NFS write performance

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/21/2009 11:38 AM, Joe Landman wrote:
> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> /etc/exports:
>> /export *.cora.nwra.com(rw,sync,fsid=0)
>> /export/cora6 *.cora.nwra.com(rw,sync,nohide)
>> /export/working *.cora.nwra.com(rw,sync,nohide)
>
> Ok. There it is... Sync.
>
> Don't need to see anything else.
>
> That is it.

Okay, how afraid should I be of using async?  man exports states:

        async  This option allows the NFS server to violate the NFS 
protocol
               and  reply to requests before any changes made by that 
request
               have been committed to stable storage (e.g. disc drive).

               Using this option might improve  performance  with 
version  2
               only,  but  at the cost that an unclean server restart 
(i.e. a
               crash) can cause data to be lost or corrupted.


I tend to like to avoid data loss or corruption.

Thanks!

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Orion Poplawski
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