[Linux-cluster] GFS tuning advice sought

[Gordan Bobic]

isplist at logicore.net wrote:
>>> Is there any GFS tuning I can do which might help speed up access to
>>> these mailboxes?
>>>
>> You probably need GFS2 in this case. To fix mail server issues in GFS1
>> would be too intrusive with current state of development cycle.
> 
> I noticed you mention that GFS2 might be best for this. Would this apply for 
> web servers as well? I've been using GFS on RHEL4 for web server cluster 
> sharing. Would I be better to look at GFS2 for performance?

Web server disk I/O is likely to be mostly read-only, so I doubt disk 
performance will ever be your bottleneck. It's bouncing write-locks 
around that slows clustered file systems down.

Gordan