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[Brane215]

Can't find it now. But I could swear I've seen it somewhere......

[Brane215]

Not true. I do most of my work over NFS4. I'm not there yet with booting over it, but I plan to get there soon.



I'm doing it...

[Brane215]

BTW, AFAIK most new 2.5G NICs do offer RDMA, which might be a good reason to get them, even if I run them at just 1Gb/s over old switch......

[Brane215]

NFSv4 can be way faster than SMB. it is also much closer to the metal and thus native disk access. So one can use various stuff that intimately depends...

[Brane215]

I know about IB, but I was hoping I could test the protocols without going trhough radical HW replacement and update, just to get a feeling for it....

[Brane215]

Two things are bad with NFSv4x:

- crappy documentation
- user mapping is cr*p. Don't event try to use it, at least not without KRB5...

[Brane215]

GREAT. But does that mean that it needs RDMA-capable NICs ?
Do any of the cheap NICs do RDMA ( Realtek etc ) ?