On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> our five-node cluster is working fine, the clustering software is great, >> but when accessing gfs2-based files, enumeration can be very slow... >> > What do you mean be "enumeration can be very slow" ? It might be > possible to slightly rearrange the I/O pattern in order to get greater > performance. Can you explain what you are trying to achieve? > I would guess this "enumeration" means "walk"; e.g. doing backup. One of the most-liked features that ZFS offers is snapshots. So I would suggest telling GFS2 users/customers to use LVM snapshot AND making sure GFS2 works well with Linux LVMm snapshot. -- Wendy -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
