<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail-c-virtual_list__item" tabindex="-1" role="group" id="gmail-1631984174.155400" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:1237px;outline-width:0px;outline-style:none;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><div role="presentation" class="gmail-c-message_kit__background gmail-p-message_pane_message__message gmail-c-message_kit__message" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.46668"><div role="document" class="gmail-c-message_kit__hover" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-c-message_kit__actions gmail-c-message_kit__actions--default" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-c-message_kit__gutter" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:flex;padding:8px 20px"><div role="presentation" class="gmail-c-message_kit__gutter__right" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;padding:8px 8px 8px 16px"><div class="gmail-c-message_kit__blocks gmail-c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text" style="box-sizing:inherit;max-width:none;margin-bottom:4px"><div class="gmail-c-message__message_blocks gmail-c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" style="box-sizing:inherit;max-width:none"><div class="gmail-p-block_kit_renderer" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:1153px"><div class="gmail-p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper gmail-p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:flex"><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_block" dir="auto" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:1153px;line-height:1.46668"><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit">Hello Everyone,<br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit">I am trying to find answers to an age old question of NFS vs Parallel file systems. Specifically - Isilon oneFS vs parallel filesystems.<span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px"></span>Specifically looking for any technical articles or papers that can help me understand what exactly will not work on oneFS.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">I understand that at the end - it all depends on workloads.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">But at what capacity of metadata io or a particular io pattern is bad in NFS.<span class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;height:8px"></span>Would just getting a beefy isilon NFS HDD based storage - resolve most of the issues?<br style="box-sizing:inherit">I am trying to find sources that can say that no matter how beefy an NFS server can get with HDDs as backed - it will not be as good as parallel filesystems for so and so workload.</div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit">If possible - Can anyone point me to experiences or technical papers that mention so and so do not work with NFS.</div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit"><br></div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit">Does it have to be that at the end - i will have to test my workloads across both NFS/OneFS and Parallel File systems and then see what would not work?</div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit"><br></div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit">I am concerned that any test case might not be valid, compared to real shared workloads where performance might lag once the storage reaches PBs in scale and millions of files.</div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit"><br></div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail-p-rich_text_section" style="box-sizing:inherit">Lohit </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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