Hi, On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 09:04 +0200, carlopmart wrote: > carlopmart wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed one host with rhel5.2 and vmware server 2.0 rc1. I > > stored vmdk files on a GFS2 partition with these params on /etc/fstab: > > rw,_netdev,noatime,noexec,nodev,nosuid. But performance is really really > > poor compared with ocfs2 for example or ext3 ... > > > > Somebody knows how can I increase GFS2 performance filesystem to store > > a lot of 2 GB vmdk files?? > > > > Many thanks. > > > > Please, any hints?? First and most importantly, make sure you have a very recent version of the GFS2 kernel source. We've done some performance improvements recently. Second, you can tune your environment using the hints on the wiki: http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/FAQ/GFS#gfs_tuning Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat Clustering & GFS -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster