Re: 2.6.21-rc1: CIFS cheers, NFS4 jeers

Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28T13:34:45Z

Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:36:23PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>> Florin Iucha wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, it's me and my 70 GB of photos again.
>>>
>>> I have tested both CIFS and NFSv4 clients in kernel 2.6.20-rc1 . CIFS
>>> passed with flying colors and NFSv4 stalled after 7 GB.
>>>
>
>
>> Neil has been diddling NFS, I did some light testing with 2.6.20-git14
>> with 190GB of mp3 and mpg files (library of congress folk music) without
>> hangs. Just "did it work" tests, copy 20-30GB to server, do md5 on the
>> data pulled back from the server.
>>
>> Didn't hang, performance testing later.
>>
>
> 2.6.20-rcX used to copy all files then hang on certain operations that
> I think used the VFS. 2.6.21-rc1 stalls the NFS transfer itself after
> several GB. The data was never corrupted.
>
> Have you tried copying _ALL_ 190 GB to the server?

No, but as noted I was doing 20-30GB, so if "several" is a small number
I'm not seeing that behavior. I'm using a Gbit connection if that is not
the same as your setup. I have additional testing queued for time
available this week.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979