From: Franco B. <fr...@fu...> - 2005-02-18 01:25:57
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On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 10:57 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Recently we have been experimenting with exporting the FUSE filesystem > > with NFS, this also appears to work fine but as we want to export it to > > hundreds of clients we are speculating as to what would happen if we use > > multiple servers, ie several machines all running the FUSE overlay > > filesystem and all exporting over NFS, should this work? I can't think > > of a good reason why it wouldn't. > > Don't get your hopes too high on NFS exporting with current FUSE. It > works, but it's far from perfect. For example it can happen that a > rarely accessed CWD becomes stale (when the inode is purged from the > cache on the server), which is only a nuisance in some situations but > unacceptable in others. > > It is possible to fix this, but requires extending the kernel > interface, and as yet nobody complained. I don't think it will be an issue for us as it's use will be non- interactive and mainly use absolute paths. What I'm not totally sure about is what happens when you have essentially the same filesystem exported from more than one server? |