On 4 November 2014 11:28, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Use XFS instead of EXT4 > There are many very good reasons its the new default filesystem in RHEL 7 xfs can't use a external journal. Those many good reasons would be? are they relevant to backing a shared filesystem serving VM images? > > Also SSDs are faster at random IO and small file; however a properly built > RAID of spinning disks is still faster at linear reads of large file. Well and good, but I don't have RAID. And unless one goes RAID10, generally they are slower at writes. > In general qemu does large linear reads or at least very close to it of the > VM's virtual disks on boot. As I noted. Its the randowm writes & reads after boot that are giving me issues. > -- > Lindsay > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -- Lindsay _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users