Performance testing shows slow read/delete performance on GFS2 filesystem on RHEL5
Issue
- While testing whether GFS2 is suitable for my new application, I found that deletes appear to be abysmally slow.
- Are deletes really expected to be half the speed of writes?
- Filesystem is 388MB in size, the rm -rf has been running for 5 minutes now and has only deleted about 10MB.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- GFS2
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