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authorAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2019-05-29 13:29:48 +0000
committerAchilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com>2019-05-29 13:29:48 +0000
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Merge branch 'docs-avoid-CephFS-GlusterFS' into 'master'
Info on Ceph and Gluster FS not recommended Closes gitlab-com/support/support-team-meta#1562 See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!26806
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@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ stored on a local volume.
For more details on another person's experience with EFS, see
[Amazon's Elastic File System: Burst Credits](https://rawkode.com/2017/04/16/amazons-elastic-file-system-burst-credits/)
+## Avoid using CephFS and GlusterFS
+
+GitLab strongly recommends against using CephFS and GlusterFS.
+These distributed file systems are not well-suited for GitLab's input/output access patterns because git uses many small files and access times and file locking times to propagate will make git activity very slow.
+
## Avoid using PostgreSQL with NFS
GitLab strongly recommends against running your PostgreSQL database