[OpenAFS] openafs performace problems

[Jason Edgecombe]

Rich Sudlow wrote:
> Mattias Pantzare wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 17:10, Rich Sudlow <rich@nd.edu> wrote:
>>> Esther Filderman wrote:
>>>> To some degree, OpenAFS will always write slower than standard NFS,
>>>> because AFS is actually making sure it's not writing crap.  NFS will
>>>> happily write stuff at blazingly fast speeds, not caring whether the
>>>> data it writes is sane or corrupted.
>>> The reason NFS appears to be faster is because you're not doing an
>>> apple - apples comparision - if you were you would have to turn off
>>> attribute caching on NFS - at that point you'd find that performance
>>> is essentially equal
>>
>> Why would you turn off attribute caching? That is a part of NFS.
>
> You're correct you generally wouldn't - But if you are truly comparing
> NFS and OpenAFS you would need to.
>
>>
>> Why would attribute caching make the test be an apples - oranges 
>> comparison?
>
> Because you have no cache coherancy on NFS to verify that data is 
> propogated out and seen simultaneously on multiple clients
> (V2 & 3)  whereas with OpenAFS that cache coherancy is there.
Would enabling "fs storebehind" in AFS with a large value give a better 
comparison to NFS with caching?

Jason