official way to load aoe module?

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

I think OCFS2 is slightly better.

Listen - if you don't need clustered filesystem, avoid it at any cost.
However, if you do need it, then A/P cluster is not enough.

Ez

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/8/22 Etzion Bar-Noy <ezaton at tournament.org.il>
>
> Indeed.
>> The easiest to implement, amongst the free clustered filesystems is OCFS2
>> by Oracle. Two or three RPMs, a short configuration phase, and you're fine.
>>
>
> How is its performance?
>
> GFS comes as part of RHEL/CentOS base, so nothing special needs to be done
> to work with it.
>
> We tested it on a Fiber-Channel  EMC SAN device, compared it to plain ext3
> and xfs (yes we know that GFS is the only clustered one) and found that the
> performance hit too high to ignore.
>
> We ended up going back to ext3 and making sure only one guest mounts the
> filesystem at a time (that's what we need for our application anyway).
>
> --Amos
>
>
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