* Michael Shuey <shuey@purdue.edu> wrote:
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> I'm currently toying with Linux's NFS, to see just how fast it can go in a 
> high-latency environment.  Right now, I'm simulating a 100ms delay between 
> client and server with netem (just 100ms on the outbound packets from the 
> client, rather than 50ms each way).  Oddly enough, I'm running into 
> performance problems. :-)

NFS is *very bad* for latent links.
Try 9p with an little metadata-caching proxy in the middle ;-P

cu
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