[fuse-devel] Networks accessing FUSE disk driver

[D.Edmons <dem...@co...>]

Hi all,

I'm just getting my disk based FUSE filesystem running and haven't
tested it with ftp, nfs, samba, etc....  Is there any thing I should watch
out for than may cause errors or a horrific slowdown using my FUSE
driver?

Some of the files that will be transferred are huge (~200Mb).  The
original process took 8hrs.  New SCSI disks with faster spindle speeds
reduced this transfer rate to 3hrs.  Between two modern OS's (Windoze
and Linux) net transfer speed is about 20min for all files.  Error rates
have been high and recovery nil.  (I got pulled off the networking, but
yes, them cables most certainly should be checked!)  I'm hoping my
driver and linux will be able to do the transfer in roughly 30 minutes.
Less would be much better.  (I think I used 100Mb ethernet for original
network test.)

Copying the necessary files between SCSI and IDE disk using my new
FUSE driver takes roughly 4minutes.  (Yipee!)   Performance, so far,
is much better than I expected.  I hope to commence testing with
the network in the loop tomorrow and this weekend.

Any helpful hints will be much appreciated, otherwise it'll be full
steam ahead!

Thanks.


Dale E. Edmons