From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:38453 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753306Ab0K2WJj (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:09:39 -0500 Received: by vws3 with SMTP id 3so151633vws.19 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:09:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CF4249F.9070400@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:09:35 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: Jim Rees CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, peter honeyman , sfaibish Subject: Re: Block layout rpm References: <20101129210708.GA21682@merit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20101129210708.GA21682@merit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On 11/29/2010 04:07 PM, Jim Rees wrote: > I have released a developer's snapshot Fedora rpm of nfs-utils for the pnfs > block layout client, at: > http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/pnfs/block/ > > Instructions, as always, are on the wiki: > http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Fedora_pNFS_Client_Setup "pNFS will work with 32-bit linux and lesser hardware, but the you will not obtain the performance benefits of pNFS." That's just silly, and, I might even go so far as to say "wrong". The benefits of direct-to-storage access, without an MDS middle-man, are quite noticable even for 32-bit, underpowered, and/or embedded clients. Jeff