https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Pooling-on-nix-alternatives-to-NFS/m-p/42064#M9788 <P>Hi</P> <P>Is it possible to get search head pooling to work on *nix with a remote fs (shared storage) other than NFS - perhaps SMB or sshfs?</P> <P>If anyone has been able to get this working, please let me know<BR /> regards<BR /> Brandon</P> Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:32:55 GMT brandonf 2011-07-13T11:32:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Pooling-on-nix-alternatives-to-NFS/m-p/42064#M9788 <P>Hi</P> <P>Is it possible to get search head pooling to work on *nix with a remote fs (shared storage) other than NFS - perhaps SMB or sshfs?</P> <P>If anyone has been able to get this working, please let me know<BR /> regards<BR /> Brandon</P> Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:32:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Pooling-on-nix-alternatives-to-NFS/m-p/42064#M9788 brandonf 2011-07-13T11:32:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Pooling-on-nix-alternatives-to-NFS/m-p/42065#M9789 <P>I can't see why alternate filesystems would not "work" as long as POSIX semantics (including locking) are maintained. Now, Splunk support may not <STRONG>support</STRONG> anything but NFS. But, typically, SMB/sshfs and several others are not going perform as well as NFS. Unix NFS has the advantage of years of tuning and a tight integration into the kernel. Many non-NFS networked filesystems are (on Linux) hooked in using FUSE, which introduces substantial delay itself. (I think sshfs suffers from this)</P> Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:37:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Search-Pooling-on-nix-alternatives-to-NFS/m-p/42065#M9789 dwaddle 2011-07-13T16:37:16Z