Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 10:29 +0100, Geoff Galitz wrote: > > > We are investigating deploying GFS across a small pool of servers: > > Centos 5.1 x86_64 > GigE Networking > > The data will consist of approximately 400GB of small JPG files accessed by > an inhouse java app. The entire cluster is 50 machines but only 7 will > require access to this data repository. > > GFS2 is not ready, yet... but my main question is, is it worth it to wait > for GFS2? We are also looking at glusterfs. > > Our goal is: > > - low administrative (sysadm) overhead > - good performance when accessing lots of small files (<100Mb) Depending on just how small the files are, then possilbly it might be worth your while. A few tens of Mb is big enough to be considered "large" I think, but if you are thinking of running something like an email server with maildir spools, then it would certainly be worth waiting for GFS2, Steve. > > > > > > > > Geoff Galitz > Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland > http://www.galitz.org > > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
