> For comparison, the ext3 file system in on a single scsi > disk in data=ordered. would be nice if you were to compare on the same controller same disk and same layout, eg configure gfs to use 1 volume instead of striping otherwise this doesn't say much. > Tar on gfs on 1 node is nearly 3x slower than ext3. > Tar on 2 gfs nodes in parallel is showing reverse scaling: > 2 nodes take 4 minutes. humm
