[Linux-cluster] GFS limits?

Daniel Phillips phillips at redhat.com
Mon Jul 19 20:13:37 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 13 July 2004 18:50, Brian Jackson wrote:
> > Does GFS intelligently "spread
> > the load" among multiple storage entities for writing under high
> > load?
>
> No, each node that mounts has direct access to the storage. It writes
> just like any other fs, when it can.

Hi Brian,

He can do that at the block device level, with a device-mapper "striped" 
target.

Regards,

Daniel




More information about the Linux-cluster mailing list