Sean Liu writes:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your reply, and that's good information.
> I actually did most of what you suggested.
> I started with dtrace and seems every system call takes longer to run
> on the filesystem when it is shared than not. So that's why I needed
> to understand what actually happens in the kernel.
>
Is this saying that "tar x over NFS" is much slower than
"tar x over UFS,ZFS,VxFS,..." ?
Is so, this is by design of NFS. Not much you can do about it.
Maybe NFS V4++ will find a way....
This somewhat touches the subject :
http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/nfs_and_zfs_a_fine
HTH
-r
> Anyway I found color.d from Brendan's blog, which is quite helpful, it
> traces into all the way into every module.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Sean
>
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