> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:29 AM > To: linux clustering > Subject: RE: Directories with >100K files > > What is the way forward now ? I've got users complaining left > right and centre. Should I ditch GFS and use NFS ? You've hit an area where GFS doesn't work so well. I don't know if NFS will be much better--others with more experience may know. (For our application we solely use GFS over other shared filesystem technologies because we require strict posix locking.) Your options seem to be: A) Limit FS activity to as few nodes as possible. (Does it perform suitably when mounted on only a single node?) B) Crank up demote_secs, an hour or more, until it either relieves your problem, or cripples the system because too many locks are held too long. (I have a filesystem here with demote_secs=86400 so we can get generally good rsync performance with over 50,000 file/directory entries.) C) Use some alternative to GFS. Sorry if there's not a better answer. Jeff -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
