Samuli, >>As a side note I have to say that I have seen similar problems with >>RAID-5 systems even when using them as non-replicated iSCSI target. In >>my experience it's definetly not good for hosting VM images. I think the performance problems he mentioned (I/O performance etc) were when a self-heal is triggered. If the replicate xlator is not loaded self-heal is never triggered. Could you raise bugs for the problems you are facing so that it will be improved in next releases. Pranith ----- Original Message ----- From: Samuli Heinonen <samppah at neutraali.net> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:48:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: "Granular locking" - does this need to be enabled in 3.3.0 ? > 3) sanlock configured (this is evil!) Just out of curiosity, can you please tell more why it is evil? I just found it out after your first post and want to know if there's any gotchas :) > Though it doesn't corrupt data, the I/O performance is < 1% of my > hardwares capability. Hopefully work on buffering and other tuning > will fix this ? Or maybe the work mentioned getting qemu talking > directly to gluster will fix this? Have you tried setting performance.client-io-threads on if it makes any difference? As a side note I have to say that I have seen similar problems with RAID-5 systems even when using them as non-replicated iSCSI target. In my experience it's definetly not good for hosting VM images. -samuli _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users