[Lustre-discuss] Quick writeback cache question
Daire Byrne
Daire.Byrne at framestore.com
Wed Mar 4 01:22:36 PST 2009
Andreas,
----- "Andreas Dilger" <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
> Secondly, with small files there is also the overhead of creating
> the many small files on the MDS, which will likely take as long
> as the RPCs being sent to the OSTs with data. There is not currently
> a metadata writeback cache that allows files to be created only on
> the client. That is something we are examining, but it is still
> a ways off.
Ah yes of course. This is the performance bottleneck I'm seeing over
a high latency link. Thanks for the clarification.
Daire
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