On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:09:21 +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote: >> >> >> >> Is GFS2 not production-ready due to lack of testing, or due to >> >> known bugs? >> >> >> >> Any advice would be appreciated >> >> >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> > The answer is a bit of both. We are getting to the stage where the known > bugs are mostly solved or will be very shortly. You can see the state of > the bug list at any time by going to bugzilla.redhat.com and looking for > any bug with gfs2 in the summary line. There are currently approx 70 > such bugs, but please bear in mind that a large number of these are > asking for new features, and some of them are duplicates of the same bug > across different versions of RHEL and/or Fedora. > > We are currently at a stage where having a large number of people > helping us in testing would be very helpful. If you have your own > favourite filesystem test, or if you are in a position to run a test > application, then we would be very interested in any reports of > success/failure. Thank you for the update. I assume that if things go according to plan, we wont see a supported gfs2 in 5.2, but probably will in 5.3? I, oddly enough, currently have a situation where running some bonnie++ tests causes machines to hang using gfs, but not gfs2. I will file a bug report when I can. Chris -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
