At 09:41 PM 1/26/2009, Raghavendra G wrote: >namespace is just a cache, which holds the directory tree of unify. >Please note that the files contained in this directory tree are of >zero byte sized. > >what about storage scalibality in this design? both server and >client. can you please give one example ? > >only bottleneck in scalability is the namespace node. It should be >able to hold the entire directory structure of unify (with zero byte >sized files). Other than that, a new node can be added just by >changing the configuration file and remounting glusterfs. so, it would be advisable for people to use a filesystem with a very small blocksize and a large number of inodes (or one that supports dynamic inode allocation) presumably? is this documented as a suggestion anywhere?
