Subject: Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Transactions, failover, performance.

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:08:09 -0400

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> That can be the case if client connects to some gate server, which in
> turn broadcasts data further, that is how I plan to implement things at
> first.

That means you are less optimal than the direct-to-storage-server path 
in NFSv4.1, then........

<waves red flag in front of the bull>

If access controls permit, the ideal would be for the client to avoid an 
intermediary when storing data.  The client only _needs_ a consensus 
reply that their transaction was committed.  They don't necessarily need 
an intermediary to do the boring data transfer work.

	Jeff