[Linux-cluster] rm -r on gfs2 filesystem is very slow

[Ian Hayes]

I've just had bad experience all around with GFS2. You may want to try GFS1
and play with the tunable parameters.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Peter Schobel <pschobel at 1iopen.net> wrote:

> I am trying to set up a four node cluster but am getting very poor
> performance when removing large directories. A directory approximately
> 1.6G  in size takes around 5 mins to remove from the gfs2 filesystem
> but removes in around 10 seconds from the local disk.
>
> I am using CentOS 5.3 with kernel 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5PAE.
>
> The filesystem was formatted in the following manner: mkfs.gfs2 -t
> wtl_build:dev_home00 -p lock_dlm -j 10
> /dev/mapper/VolGroupGFS-LogVolDevHome00 and is being mounted with the
> following options: _netdev,noatime,defaults.
>
> If anyone knows what could be causing this please let me know. I'm
> happy to provide any other information.
>
> Regards,
>
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