On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:15:31AM -0700, Harry Mangalam wrote: > That's very impressive! How many config iterations did you have to do to get > this perf? Not too many I think.. only tried a few tunings of stripe-unit in the 3ware CLI, and scratched my heads a few times to try to understand the mkfs.xfs sunit/swidth-options.. > > I'd certainly consider GPFS but I was under the impression that it was only > available for IBM-branded Linux boxes w/ customized kernels. Can you buy it > a la carte? Yes, and maybe even for free from the IBM Scholars programme if you qualify. But yes, it does require a couple of "GPFS" kernel modules, which will typically only build for vendor kernels (i.e. not keeping up with the latest kernel.org releases). We're running a RHEL-3 clone, so that's not been a problem for us so far. -jf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
