Hi Vikas, Thanks for the quick answer. Yeah, I figured it would be slow. That's why im trying to cascade it instead of having 2000 subvolumes directly attached to the top node :) Anyway, I'll have a go at the 1.4.0.rc2 version in the meantime and let you know if it also crashes. Cheers, Rainer On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 21:24 +0530, Vikas Gorur wrote: > Rainer, > > Thank you for your interest in GlusterFS. > > I do not know of any user who's had an AFR configuration with 40-50 > subvolumes, but there is no reason it shouldn't work. The write > performance will obviously be quite low, but in your case since you > will not be making heavy/daily use of it (the only writes will be when > you make a new release, if I understand correctly), that shouldn't be > an issue. > > The version of GlusterFS you're using (1.3.12) is rather old now. We > have a new release 1.4.0 in the final stages of testing. We haven't > yet completely tested the AFR-over-AFR setup yet. > > You could either wait a few days (less than a week) for us to make the > RC1 release with AFR-over-AFR tested or grab the TLA repository > version and give it a try. > > Vikas > -- > Engineer - Z Research > http://gluster.com/
