RE: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-06-13 Thread Chris Forgeron
>From: Rick Macklem > >Well, I doubt you'll find much difference performance wise. An NFS server can >be looked as a protocol translator, converting the NFS RPCs into VFS/VOP >calls. Performance is largely defined by how well the network stack and/or >file system perform. > >When you set up a se

Re: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-06-06 Thread Rick Macklem
Chris Forgeron wrote: [stuff snipped] > > I hope to do a speed test comparison between new and old NFS servers > this weekend - At this stage, my feeling is that the new NFS server is > at least as fast. I suspect tests will show it to be faster (at least > the code looks faster. :-) ). > Well, I

RE: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Forgeron
BTW, I've been pounding on the new NFS server with a few test VM's from my ESX cluster for the last 2 weeks, 24/7. Everything looks solid, no panics, no errors, no corruption. Memory usage is staying stable, so I haven't found any leaks. I'm using IOMETER to move a few TB of randomized data a

Re: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-04-27 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:26:05AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Actually, I think we should switch GENERIC in HEAD to the new client and > kernel very soon. The goal is to get current users testing the new client > and > server so they can uncover any bugs. If problems crop up during the testi

Re: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-04-26 Thread Rick Macklem
> > Actually, I think we should switch GENERIC in HEAD to the new client > and > kernel very soon. The goal is to get current users testing the new > client and > server so they can uncover any bugs. If problems crop up during the > testing > that can't be resolved, we can always revert to the old

Re: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-04-26 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday, April 24, 2011 3:12:13 pm Rick Macklem wrote: > > On 04/24/11 02:00, Rick Macklem wrote: > > > There will soon be a commit to head that will change the > > > default NFS server to the new one that was called the > > > experimental NFS server (but no longer experimental). After > > > this

Re: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-04-24 Thread Rick Macklem
> On 04/24/11 02:00, Rick Macklem wrote: > > There will soon be a commit to head that will change the > > default NFS server to the new one that was called the > > experimental NFS server (but no longer experimental). After > > this commit, you must use "-o" on both mountd and nfsd to > > force the

Re: Heads Up: default NFS server changing to the new one

2011-04-24 Thread O. Hartmann
On 04/24/11 02:00, Rick Macklem wrote: There will soon be a commit to head that will change the default NFS server to the new one that was called the experimental NFS server (but no longer experimental). After this commit, you must use "-o" on both mountd and nfsd to force the system to use the o