> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nicolas Ross > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:32 PM > To: linux clustering > Subject: Re: Starter Cluster / GFS > > > We had to make similar changes to our application. > > > > Avoid allowing two (or more) hosts to create small files in the same > > shared directory within a GFS filesystem. That particular case scales > > poorly with GFS. > > > > If you can partition things so that two hosts will never create files > > in the same directory (we used a per-host directory structure for our > > application), or perhaps direct all write operations to one host while > > other hosts only read from GFS, it should perform well. > > Ok, I see. Our applications will read/write into its own directory most of the > time. In the rare cases when it'll be possible that 2 nodes read/writes to the > same directory, it'll be for php sessions files. If we ever need to reach to this > stage, we'll have to make a custom session handler to put them into a central > memcached or something else... > If that's the case, why look at shared storage at all? -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
