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Re: [Xen-users] cluster filesystems

To: Brock Palen <brockp@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] cluster filesystems
From: "Christopher G. Stach II" <cgs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:34:32 -0500
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Brock Palen wrote:
> Im curious as to what shared filesystems people have been using for
> domU's I know you can use NFS but i would hardly call that a robust
> shared filesystem,  I come from HPC ware we like performacnce more than
> reliablity (PVFS2)  What shared filesystems have you used and how have
> you liked them,  or how much work was it to use them as the / drive on
> domU's,   (intersted in migration) Luster, GFS, GPFS, etc?

I use GFS on changeset 9029, but it craps out all of the time.  I get a
lot of soft lockups in the GFS and CMAN drivers, unsynchrnoized GFS
partitions, etc.  I'm hoping that all of the bugs fixed in 3.0.2 will
make things more stable.  (If not, it's bug report time.)  Even though I
would like to use it as the root partition for all of the VMs, I don't.

I also use NFS on a Xen 2 setup.  That one works fine, but the
performance is awful.

-- 
Christopher G. Stach II

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