Yes, there is certainly a huge performance boost here, IO load on average has dropped from 90+% to around 5-10%. DRBD + GFS2 is so much faster I can actually now count how many attachment files are on disk (for the record, over 810,000 files in one directory (SMF
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), and because it's so much less disruptive now to manage this directory we can start to look at migrating this into a proper directory structure.
Note the work is still not complete though, there is still a few things to shuffle around and there may be some minor outages lasting a few minutes while the work is completed.