open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread An Oneironaut
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone out there had tested open-iscsi with a variety of Linux filesystems to see what works best. Currently I am using the ext3 fs and for months now have been suffering problems. Anytime the iSCSI connection is dropped a variety of bad things can happen. The

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:37:46PM -0700, An Oneironaut wrote: Hey all, I was wondering if anyone out there had tested open-iscsi with a variety of Linux filesystems to see what works best. Currently I am using the ext3 fs and for months now have been suffering problems. Anytime the

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Konrad Rzeszutek schrieb: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:37:46PM -0700, An Oneironaut wrote: Hey all, I was wondering if anyone out there had tested open-iscsi with a variety of Linux filesystems to see what works best. Currently I am using the ext3 fs and for months now have been

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread An Oneironaut
Ok, To answer the questions. The timeout time I have setup is 600 seconds which is the limit of what I'd like to do. The problem with a long time out is that every operation that could possibly happen on that mount will freeze up for ${TIMEOUT} seconds. The worst one is reload which will

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread Nandkumar
Documentation section of http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/ will give you enough insight of multipath. After installing multipath tools, you can find info about each parameter of multipath.conf in /usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7/multipath.conf.annotated file. Thanks Nankdumar On