[gpfsug-discuss] Scale 5, filesystem guidelines
Jonathan Buzzard
jonathan at buzzard.me.uk
Wed Feb 14 21:47:38 GMT 2018
On 14/02/18 20:59, Ray Coetzee wrote:
> Since Scale 5.0 was released I've not seen much guidelines provided on
> how to make the best of the new filesystem layout.
>
> For example, is dedicated metadata SSD's still recommended or does the
> Scale 5 improvements mean we can just do metadata and data pools now?
>
> I'd be interested to hear of anyone's experience so far.
>
Well given metadata performance is heavily related to random IO
performance I would suspect that dedicated metadata SSD's are still
recommended. That is unless you have an all SSD based file system :-)
JAB.
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