On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Amar S. Tumballi <amar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We are exploring the possibility of using Gluster in a High Availability > > Qmail Cluster. Currently we use NFS to connect 5 qmail nodes to a single > > NFS server where the mail is stored. This setup works GREAT for us > > without > > any problems. (Except that the NFS server clunks out every week or so for > > an unknown reason...) > > > > Welcome! sure, it can work fine as NFS replacement. > > > > > > We want to move to Gluster and an AFR brick to give us a HA cluster. How > > does gluster do with LOTS and LOTS of small files (140GB of files with an > > average size of 35k?) My guess is that if it works with NFS it will work > > with Gluster, what about when one brick in the AFR goes down? Does > > gluster > > timeout quickly and resume operations with just one node? > > > > Yes, when a brick goes down, AFR handles it smoothly. User will not see the > effect of one machine going offline. > > > > -- > Amar Tumballi > Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker > [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] > http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Supercomputing and Superstorage! > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > I know I have sort of asked about this in the past months, and I have seen a couple other inquiries. Can someone who has successfully used GlusterFS as a maildir NFS replacement with AFR post their configs to show how they did it, and maybe post how their performance is? Last time I messed with this (probably 2 months now) I had slow performance and things would just crap out, so obviously I did not understand something and probably had a bad config setup. I have two nfs servers, 1 for our web cluster and 1 for mail, i would love to merge the two of them and setup afr between them but I just did not have any luck accomplishing this. Hopefully this didnt get too long winded, but has anyone on this list used glusterfs in a mail storage way with afr like described?
