,----[ Franco Broi writes: ]
| What would be really nice is if this could somehow be implemented in
| a distributed fashion where each server has a copy of the
| metadata. I know this is quite challenging as each copy needs to be
| kept up to date but it would allow Glusterfs to retain its no single
| point of failure.
|
| We currently have about 150TB of data in a single name space FUSE
| system and the metadata consumes just over 1GB of disk space, this
| represents about 3 million files. So having a copy on each server
| wouldn't be a huge overhead.
`----
Franco,
Now we are going to do distributedly. Thanks for your valuable
feedback.
Can you tell us the output of
$ find / | wc
Other than dir/file names, do you also store any other information in
your system?
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