Hi Rainer, Actually, you need to cascade AFR volumes with Hash or Unify. http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS#Volume_file_.28volfile.29_Examples http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Mixing_DHT_and_AFR Hope this helps. Regards, Amar 2008/12/15 Rainer Schwemmer <rainer.schwemmer at cern.ch> > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20081215/5378090c/attachment.htm
