[Linux-cluster] Re: GFS in RHCS on RHEL5.1

[denis <denisb+gmane gmail com>]

gordan bobich net wrote:
>> I was under the impression that installing Red Hat Cluster Suite with
>> GFS in RHEL5.1 was a "supported" solution, but a colleague informed me
>> that the GFS version in RHEL5.x is currently a technology preview?!
> Your colleague is semi-misinformed.
> GFS1 is stable (and has been for years) and available in RHEL5. GFS2 is
> tech preview. So if you are deploying a cluster right now, do it with
> GFS1. GFS2 is not yet recommended for production use.

Thanks for the information. My follow-up question is whether GFS (1)
tolerates high performance situations (with lots of concurrent writes /
read access / high number of files)?

Regards
--
Denis