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On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:41:37AM -0600, James Bourne wrote: > Hi, > We are going to start using OpenGFS in a production environment > here where there are 2 web servers sharing the document root between them. > > I have done some testing and the current version (0.2.1) seems very stable. > > I am wondering if you both could give me some feed back on the FS. > Generally what I'm looking for is can the FS do what we need it to do and > is it relatively stable, and if not what could I do to help make > it stable, what are the known problems (if any) with this version, and > if there is anything special I should do to ensure > it's stability and usefulness? There are a number of known problems that may or may not bug you. T&ake a look at the bug database on sourceforge and see if there are any real problems for you. > Here's more of a description of what we need it to do. > > Our current environment is drawn like this. > > > LVS server------ ---------- +--Web server-----+ > | + Switch + | | > LVS server-- | ---------- | | > | |_____||||_____________________| | > |__________||_________________________Web Server---+ | > | | > | | > ------------- > + FC switch + > ------------- > | > CX600 SAN-------------------------+ > > OK, the web servers have their own OS file system (36G mirror) and then > also share 68G of disk from the SAN over FC2. This is where OpenGFS > is being used, naturally and is the content for the web application. > > The application is a web based course delivery tool called BlackBoard. > > They say it will work on a shared file system and do have some > instructions on the setup which of course we will be following... It will > be fairly low load, in the order of an average < 100 block > reads/writes per second a majority (> 80%) of the time and < 10000 100% of > the time (based on the current single server instance). > > The application its self is apache/java and heavily uses mod_perl. > > Kernel is 2.4.20 (with several patches, see my website > at http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/ for the actual patches). > Patches include large uid, Andrew Mortons ext3 patches for 2.4.20, VFS > lock patch for LVM, Jeff Garziks tg3 patch, ptrace patch, and Ingo Molnars > IRQ balance patch for the p4 HT systems. Should work fine. > Let me know if there's any other information that would be helpful, and if > there are any tests or specific things you want me to test I do have > this available for the weekend > to crash/kill/test until the web administrator gets it for his > installation... Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Opengfs-devel mailing list Opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-devel