>>>>> "t" == Tim <t...@tcsac.net> writes:
t> why not just serve NFS off the filerthere can be some benefit to the lossless FC fabric through eliminating TCP RTO's and applying backpressure so the initiator has more control over I/O scheduling. As discussed here, block-based storage can produce fewer synchronous calls / rtt waits than NFS for workloads involving opening and closing lots of small files when you are not calling fsync on them. I state both based on theory not experience, and I'm not saying that's Gary's workload falls in the second category, nor that NFS is necessarily the wrong approach, but here are two reasons a sane person might plausibly decide to use the LUN interface instead. I'm sure there are more arguments for and against.
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