Re: [Linux-cluster] clvmd fails to start on second node.

2008-01-01 Thread Patrick Caulfeld
Ray Charles wrote: > > Hi, > > I am following the directions of the VMClusterCookbook > and have the early makings of a virtualized two node > cluster. On both guest-nodes i can initialize cman and > achieve quorate. However, things go sideways when I > try to initialize clvmd on both nodes. Th

[Linux-cluster] clvmd fails to start on second node.

2008-01-01 Thread Ray Charles
Hi, I am following the directions of the VMClusterCookbook and have the early makings of a virtualized two node cluster. On both guest-nodes i can initialize cman and achieve quorate. However, things go sideways when I try to initialize clvmd on both nodes. The first node brings up clvmd clean

Re: [Linux-cluster] gfs2 hang

2008-01-01 Thread Jos Vos
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 12:56:12PM -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote: > On GFS(1) part, the glock trimming patch > (http://people.redhat.com/wcheng/Patches/GFS/readme.gfs_glock_trimming.R4) > was developed for customers with rsync issues. Field data have shown > positive results. It is released on RHEL

Re: [Linux-cluster] gfs2 hang

2008-01-01 Thread Wendy Cheng
Jos Vos wrote: The one thing that's horribly wrong in some applications is performance. If you need to have large amounts of files and frequent directory scans (i.e. rsync etc.), you're lost. On GFS(1) part, the glock trimming patch (http://people.redhat.com/wcheng/Patches/GFS/readme.gfs_g

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS performance

2008-01-01 Thread 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

Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS performance

2008-01-01 Thread Wendy Cheng
Kamal Jain wrote: A challenge we’re dealing with is a massive number of small files, so there is a lot of file-level overhead, and as you saw in the charts…the random reads and writes were not friends of GFS. It is expected that GFS2 would do better in this area butt this does *not* imply