[Linux-cluster] GFS performance

[Jos Vos]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 12:00:32PM -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote:

> It is expected that GFS2 would do better in this area butt this does 
> *not* imply GFS(1) is not fixable. One thing would be helpful is sending 
> us the benchmark (or test program that can reasonably represent your 
> application IO patterns) you used to generate the performance data. Then 
> we'll see what can be done from there ....

Take a typical public mirror tree (like Fedora, but FreeBSD gives you
even more fun, as it has *huge* directories), start the rsync service
and let a bunch of clients rsync some trees.

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