On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:47:08PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Saturday April 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I've just checked, it takes 5.7s to compare 2.4.29{,-hf3} over NFS (13300 > > files each) and 1.3s once the trees are cached locally. This is without > > comparing file contents, just meta-data. And it takes 19.33s to compare > > the file's md5 sums once the trees are cached. I don't know if there are > > ways to avoid some NFS operations when everything is cached. > > > > Anyway, the system does not seem much efficient on hard links, it caches > > the files twice :-( > > I suspect you'll be wanting to add a "no_subtree_check" export option > on your NFS server...
Thanks a lot, Neil ! This is very valuable information. I didn't understand such implications from the exports(5) man page, but it makes a great difference. And the diff sped up from 5.7 to 3.9s and from 19.3 to 15.3s. Cheers, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/