[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 performance - disk random access time problem

[Tao Ma]

Hi Proskurin,

On 06/02/2010 05:23 PM, Proskurin Kirill wrote:
> On 01/06/10 22:34, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>> The kernel is old. We fixed this issue in 2.6.30. We have also backported
>> it to the 1.4 production tree.
>>
>> The problem was that the inodes being created did not have locality
>> leading to a directory having inodes that were spaced far apart from
>> each other. The one place where it really affected performance was "rm".
>
> Thank you for reply!
> It is enough to update kernel or tools need to be updated too?
If you only want to use the old formatted volume, updating kernel is 
enough. But if you want to use some new features we added, better update 
ocfs2-tools also.

Regards,
Tao