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Re: Symlink navigation

Posted by:
Daniel Roizman



Date:
05-12-2010,
19:40:PM

so there is an i/o penalty on the osx server, but the actual transfer will come directly from the NAS through the switch to your box?


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Sam Richards <sam@imageworks.com> wrote:
It might be worth clarifying.

If you have a 100MB file on your NAS, and a symlink on your osx server, a NFS client will read the symlink and then read the 100MB file directly from the NAS. So it is reading something from your OS-X server every time, and when this scales up to a big renderfarm it can be a big issue (even if it is a small link tree), but for most setups this can work extremely well (say a renderfarm with < 1000 nodes).

I hope that helps...

Sam.

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Andrina Kelly <andrina@magpies.ca> wrote: