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Hi Matt, Stephen is right. THe performance will not be very good. While you have eased the load on nfs in terms of number of clients the overall speed will be limited to below nfs speeds. In general, nfs is a very poor performer. Andy On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote: > Hi Matt, > BTW, do you really want to serve an NFS disk via xrootd? I'm not > sure what the benefits would be, perhaps teher server would cache the file > to make it a little better than normal NFS if a lot of people open the > same file... > > regards, > > Stephen. > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Langston, Matthew David wrote: > > > We would like to export multiple directories from our xrootd server. The version of xrootd we are running currently only supports exporting one directory. This is our current xrootd.cf file: > > > > glast@glast01 $ cat xrootd.cf > > xrootd.fslib libXrdOfs.so > > oss.readonly > > xrootd.export /nfs/farm/g/glast/ > > > > We would like to do something like this: > > > > glast@glast01 $ cat xrootd.cf > > xrootd.fslib libXrdOfs.so > > oss.readonly > > xrootd.export /nfs/farm/g/glast/dir1 > > xrootd.export /nfs/farm/g/glast/dir2 > > > > However, it appears that xrootd only takes the last "xrootd.export" stanza. Is there a way to get multiple exports (maybe in a later version of xrootd)? > > > > Warmest regards, Matt > > > > > > -- > /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ > |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | > |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | > |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | > |EMail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | > \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ >