Chris Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ----- "Matt Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have never had any problems with ext3. > > I suspect you're not doing a lot of disk I/O, we > found NFS servers using ext3 as a back end would > crumble under the weight of lots of writes as ext3 > is single threaded through the journal daemon. > > That means that you end up with all your NFS daemons > blocking on that, stalling everything else. :-(
Put your journal onto a battery backed RAM card or the equivalent on the RAID controller and it significantly speeds up dealing with a journal. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
