Creating or deleting files is slow on a GFS2 filesystem on an NVMe device
Issue
- A GFS2 filesystem performs poorly on RHEL 8 when the underlying storage device is an NVMe device.
- A GFS2 filesystem on an NVMe device exported by AWS is slow.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (with the Resilient Storage Add-on)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (with the Resilient Storage Add-on)
- A GFS2 filesystem on an NVMe device
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