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Operation Manager 3.8 Report - Volume NFS other Ops/Sec

gregorio — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:22:22 GMT

I am running a report on my Storage Controllers and I a large amount of traffic is been reported as Volume NFS other. I thought NFS traffic was either NFS read or NFS write. Does anyone know what is NFS other?

Thanks,

Gregory

Re: Operation Manager 3.8 Report - Volume NFS other Ops/Sec

matthewt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:44:12 GMT

There is actually a large number of request types in NFS. There are gettaddrs and other types of metadata requests that are used to read or change the access times, modified times, permissions, et al.

One example in my environment: We had a FAS960 running 36000 NFS ops a second. But inside that huge number was less than 500 reads/writes a second. The nature of the application using the NFS mounts required frequent scans of file attributes in a large file-count environment.

These "other" operations are often light, and don't add as much "real" workload to the filer as a pure large read or write would (as illustrated by the example).

Re: Operation Manager 3.8 Report - Volume NFS other Ops/Sec

adaikkap — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:26:01 GMT

NFS other includes getattr,setattr etc

Regards

adai

Re: Operation Manager 3.8 Report - Volume NFS other Ops/Sec

gregorio — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:13:24 GMT

Thank you all.. Now I understand what nfs other is..