I have a gfs2 cluster and have found the performance to be outstanding. It's great with small files. It's hard to say how it compares to my gluster cluster since I designed them to do different tasks. But since the storage is all shared block level it does have many advantages. Liam On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:29 AM, "miloska at gmail.com" <miloska at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com> > wrote: >> You COULD run gluster on top of an iscsi mounted volume...but why >> would you want too? If you already have an iscsi SAN why not use >> gfs2 >> or something like that? >> > > You need full cluster infrastructure for that - Gluster is a much > simpler solution. > > GFS2 is also _very_ slow, although I never run a test to compare it > with Gluster, but my feeling is that Gluster much faster.
