[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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