FUSE Adding Support For Non-Extending Parallel Direct Writes To The Same File

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FUSE Adding Support For Non-Extending Parallel Direct Writes To The Same File

Queued up in FUSE's "for-next" kernel branch is a patch worked on in recent months for allowing non-extending parallel direct writes to the same file...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-P-Direct-Writes-Same-File

[coder]

Wow, that should be a pretty big boost for things like databases and VMs. I wonder how FUSE performance compares with native filesystems, these days.

[akarypid]

Wow, that should be a pretty big boost for things like databases and VMs. I wonder how FUSE performance compares with native filesystems, these days.

I actuallly found out a couple of years ago that samba over GVFS/FUSE is extremely slow compared to kernel-based CIFS mounts (https://discuss.getsol.us/d/6411-sam...runs-very-slow). I currently mount my TrueNAS shares from /etc/fstab due to this.

I think I'm going to give FUSE another try to see how much it has progressed. It doesn't have to beat kernel-based solutions in speed, just be close enough. The usability aspect of being able to mount dynamically is equally important, but back then it cost too much in speed...

[stiiixy]

The ol' local machine storage/network bandwidth/server storage juggle.

Did the recent Paragon native NTFS driver ever progress to usable, if not better than, FUSE?

[aakef]

Stay tuned, more improvements to fuse to come soon