[CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 14:48:03 UTC 2011


On 3/8/11 8:32 AM, Ross Walker wrote:
>
> Why wouldn't you want safe writes? Is that like saying, and if you care for your data?

You don't fsync every write on a local disk.  Why demand it over NFS where the 
server is probably less likely to crash than the writing node?  That's like 
saying you don't care about speed - or you can afford a 10x faster array just 
for the once-in-several-years you might see a crash.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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