Re: Performance: NFS v3 mounting with 'noac' option

[Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>]

AK wrote:
> --- Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> What about this application requires that the
>>>>         
>> "noac"
>>     
>>>> option be used?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>   application is romio with mpich2 ...
>>>       
>> Sorry, I'm not familiar with those.  What about
>> either one of those
>> require "noac" semantics?
>>     
>
> "To use ROMIO on NFS, file locking with fcntl must
> work correctly on the NFS installation. On some
> installations, fcntl locks don't work. To get them to
> work, you need to use Version 3 of NFS, ensure that
> the lockd daemon is running on all the machines, and
> have the system administrator mount the NFS file
> system with the "noac" option (no attribute caching).
> Turning off attribute caching may reduce performance,
> but it is necessary for correct behavior."

I think that I would assume that fcntl style locking works on all current
implementations, that this is not NFS version dependent, and also that
"noac" is not required in combination with the locking in order to get
correct behavior.

       ps

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