[Linux-cluster] Re: GFS vs GFS2
Steven Whitehouse
swhiteho at redhat.com
Mon May 12 08:50:14 UTC 2008
Hi,
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:34 +0000, Chris Picton wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:09:21 +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Is GFS2 not production-ready due to lack of testing, or due to
> >> >> known bugs?
> >> >>
> >> >> Any advice would be appreciated
> >> >>
> >> >> Chris
> >> >>
> >> >>
> > The answer is a bit of both. We are getting to the stage where the known
> > bugs are mostly solved or will be very shortly. You can see the state of
> > the bug list at any time by going to bugzilla.redhat.com and looking for
> > any bug with gfs2 in the summary line. There are currently approx 70
> > such bugs, but please bear in mind that a large number of these are
> > asking for new features, and some of them are duplicates of the same bug
> > across different versions of RHEL and/or Fedora.
> >
> > We are currently at a stage where having a large number of people
> > helping us in testing would be very helpful. If you have your own
> > favourite filesystem test, or if you are in a position to run a test
> > application, then we would be very interested in any reports of
> > success/failure.
>
> Thank you for the update.
>
> I assume that if things go according to plan, we wont see a supported
> gfs2 in 5.2, but probably will in 5.3?
>
That is quite likely, yes.
> I, oddly enough, currently have a situation where running some bonnie++
> tests causes machines to hang using gfs, but not gfs2. I will file a bug
> report when I can.
>
>
> Chris
>
Ok, all such information is useful. Thanks,
Steve.
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