Dear All, Thank you for your sharing. I will wait RHEL 5.3 ... or 5.4 for applying gfs2 in production cluster... 2008/11/14 Diego Liziero <diegoliz@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Achievement Chan > <achievement.hk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dear All, >> Is GFS2 stable for production system? > > Not as regards the one in current 5.2. > > I had this issues: > > - locking with samba running on a single node that caused continuous > freezes of the shares, even when exported read-only after the latest > kernel+cman update (this could have been cased by the fact that not > all nodes have been rebooted after the update). After a reboot of all > nodes and a switch to the old stable gfs this hasn't happened any > longer. > > - the last modification time of a file is not always updated on all > nodes (doing an ls of the same file on different nodes may show > different modification time after it has been edited on a node). > > - sometimes the space used by deleted files is not freed. Launching > gfs2_fsck -y on unmounted filesystem detect lots of "Ondisk status is > 1 (Data) but FSCK thinks it should be 0 (Free)" messages, but, despite > that, the space is still not freed. > > BTW I've still a corrupted gfs2 empty filesystem that shows incorrect > free space if someone feels like to debug it. > > Regards, > Diego. > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
