On Fri, Joe Little wrote: > Thanks. I'm playing with it now, trying to get the most succinct test. > This is one thing that bothers me: Regardless of the backend, it > appears that a delete of a large tree (say the linux kernel) over NFS > takes forever, but its immediate when doing so locally. Is delete over > NFS really take such a different code path?
Yes. As mentioned in my other email, the NFS protocol requires that operations like REMOVE, RMDIR, CREATE have the filesystem metadata written to stable storage/disk before sending a response to the client. That is not required of local access and therefore the disparity between the two. Spencer _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
