Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software

In this chapter, we have only scratched the surface of a complex topic: how to configure and use a NAS server. The focus has mostly been on lock information and basic performance issues to get you started thinking about the issues involved when you convert from a monolithic server to a Linux Enterprise Cluster that will run legacy multiuser applications. Here are additional resources to assist you:

• When building an NFS client on Linux, begin by reading the Network Appliance Technical Article "TR3183."

• The home page for the open source version of NFS is http://nfs.sourceforge.net.

• Linux NFS performance tuning is discussed at http://linux-perf.nl.linux.org.

• Also, for Linux NFS performance tuning, see the "Linux NFS-HOWTO" at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/performance.html.

  Note

  See especially the online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark, which was patterned after the widely used TCP-C benchmark.

• An excellent discussion of the methods for troubleshooting NFS problems is available in the book Linux NFS and Automounter Administration by Erez Zadok.