----- Original Message ----- > From: "Deadpan110" <deadpan110 at gmail.com> > I have posted this to the lists purely to help others - please do not > consider any of the following suitable for a production environment > and follow these rough instructions at your own risk. > .... .... .... > 2: glusterfs NFS > > Obviously make sure you have nfs-common and portmap installed and then > mount in the usual way. > > I found this method had less mem and CPU overheads but locking seemed > really bad with some of my services (Dovecot, SVN) and the locks > ultimately caused load to spiral out of control. > > It may have been a misconfiguration on my behalf! > > Simply using NFS mounting as a read filesystem without the need for > locking worked well... but writing large files seemed to lock up the > system also (i did not test this with 1024MB of mem and again, it is > possibly a configuration on my behalf). > > If only a single nfs client machine will be running dovecot/svn, you can use the nolock option at mount time to work-around the missing NLM support. -Shehjar
