On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:53:24PM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> i am trying to mount the entire contents of /vservers from an
> nfs share rather than locally. the mount works, but showattr
> indicates i have lost the Barrier attribute and cannot re-set
> it.... the ony workaround i have found is to mount each
> vserver/guestname via nfs and not the /vservers dir.. that is
> a LOT of nfs mounts!! more than 30 on one machine.
> won't that present performance problems?
mostly depends on the server and on the amount of
possibly shared data ...
> is there a way to set the barrier on an nfs mounted /vservers
> dir?
well, the bad news is, as longs as the server doesn't
support the additional attributes, there is no way to
set the barrier flag on an nfs share, the good news
OTOH is, that the barrier most likely isn't needed
anymore with recent kernel/patches
HTH,
Herbert
> --
> Chuck
Received on Sun Sep 18 17:46:27 2011