12 Aug
2000
12 Aug
'00
10:35 p.m.
Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
It silly to blame the server, when it's clearly the client's fault.
I quite agree its not netapps fault in any way whatsoever that linux' nfs client doesn not cope well with parallel workloads. However speaking for myself alone netapp will sell us 10* more filers if the performance of linux improves. Now even if I only buy 1 filer a year if things don't improve and that I pay $100k for a filer then thats $1m that I haven't spent with netapp. Say there are a just dozen more customers in my position then there is a probably $12m return on an investment of a bit of engineering resource. If I was netapp right now I'd be trying to work out who to assign to a linux performance project :-)
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