What is the current recommended stable version of the Linux kernel and GFS combination? I recently setup GFS 6.0.0-15 with kernel version 2.4.21-20.ELsmp. According to the message below, though, this will not give me the best performance and stability. Should I upgrade to a later kernel? Will the new version of GFS run with the 2.4 kernel or will it require 2.6? --Vincent This e-mail and/or its attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient(s) or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer and files. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material contained herein is strictly forbidden. Pipeline Trading Systems, LLC - Member NASD & SIPC. -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abe Shelton Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:06 PM To: linux clistering Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] What is the status of GFS? I've been lurking too and am also very interested hearing the official, up-to-date status of gfs on both RHEL3 and FC3. We've managed to get GFS-6.0.0-15 working on RHEL3U3 with directly attached SAN storage. (3 nodes, shared disk array via FC HBAs, each node running lock_gulmd) In my first round of benchmarks using bonnie++ on kernel 2.4.21-20.ELsmp, the 'many small files' tests didn't work out so well. We're retesting now with kernel 2.4.21-25.ELsmp. So far everything seems stable and FS performance compared to stock ext3 seems decent. - with bonnie++ running simultaneously on each machine, ext3 averages 77.10 MB/sec writing and 54.65 MB/sec reading. - same setup/methodology with gfs manages 63.01 MB/sec avg for writing and 54.87 MB/sec avg for reading. Abe Naoki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm anxiously waiting for a good time to use GFS in some of my projects > but I'm a little concerned that it's just not ready. I've been lurking > on the list for a couple of months now and it seems everything from > copying files to using samba will cause hangs or panics. Is this because > people here are using fresh code from CVS or simply that it's not there > yet? > > -n. > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > > -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
