Moved from afr to replicate and unify to distribute and that helped a bit. I am now seeing 109 MB/s with Gluster vs 167MB/s DRBD. My configs: http://share.robotics.net/glusterfs.vol http://share.robotics.net/glusterfsd.vol -Nathan On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Nathan Stratton wrote: > > Direct: > [root at xen0 unify]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdb2/bar bs=1G count=8 > 8+0 records in > 8+0 records out > 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 51.3145 seconds, 167 MB/s > > Gluster: > [root at xen0 unify]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/unify/foo bs=1G count=8 > 8+0 records in > 8+0 records out > 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 87.7885 seconds, 97.8 MB/s > > Boxes are connected with 10 gig Infiniband so that should not be an issue. > > http://share.robotics.net/glusterfs.vol > http://share.robotics.net/glusterfsd.vol > >> <> > Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com > >