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Is it faster to use NFS mounted directories?
For a small number of files and directories, it wouldn’t do much difference. Doing file operation in bulk on an NFS mounted directory is slow. If you have the opportunity to log into the NFS server itself and do them on the actual directory, then this would be quicker.
How does NFS communicate with the file server?
Since the process that has the file open is running on one machine (such as a workstation in your office or lab) and the files are on the file server, there has to be some way for the two machines to communicate information about this file. The way NFS does this is with the .nfsNNNN files.
Why do I get ” directory not empty ” with rm-rf?
These things happen in sequence, so if more files are created before an rmdir is issued, you get back ENOTEMPTY (“Directory not empty”). More than likely your script or another process running on the system is creating things simultaneously with the rm -rf. You may need to think about:
Are there so many files that performing rm-rf returns an error?
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What causes one NFS server to fail to the other?
That may lead to “contagion” from one NFS server failing to the other failing (from essential processes going into disk sleep, or running out of resources from cron jobs spawning and not finishing, etc.). (This shows a D in ps, if you’re wondering)
We have a few linux file servers, our sysadmin refuses to do any NFS cross mounting, by cross mounting I mean mounting an nfs share from server A on server B and a share from server B on A . Anybody knows if there are any problems with this cross mounting?
Which is slower to delete a directory NFS or NTFS?
Nfs – and any network filesystem – is always much slower. In many cases, you can make recursive deletions quasi-infinite speed with a trick: From many (but not all) aspects, this directory removal will look as if it had been happened in practically zero time.