Dell PowerVault MD1200 - Manual (Page 21)

Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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Metadata file create performance Figure 9.
File create and file remove tests show similar results with the baseline out-performing the DFC
configuration. File stat is a read operation and here the DFC configuration outperforms the baseline by
up to 80%.
Metadata file stat performance Figure 10.
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