On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:23:43PM +0100, Stephen Willey wrote: > I saw a question a while back from Jeffrey Bethke about speeding up df > operations. > > We're considering building a large GFS filesystem and the 11Tb > filesystem that we have now can take a very long time to return from a > df (either regular or using gfs_tool). > > Once it's run once it appears to cache the information and runs quite > quickly, but we're concerned about how this will scale once we get up to > 100 or so Tb. Waiting ages for a df to return isn't ideal... It'll get slower as the fs grows. In GFS2 df will have no delay at all regardless of fs size -- tradeoff is that it's "fuzzy", not perfectly accurate. Dave -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
