How to Improve GFS/GFS2 File System Performance and Prevent Processes from Hanging

Cluster file systems such as the Red Hat Global File System (GFS) and Red Hat Global File System 2 (GFS2) are complex systems that allows multiple computers (nodes) to simultaneously share the same storage device in a cluster.

There can be many reasons why performance does not match expectations. In some workloads or environments, the overhead associated with distributed locki...