Hello, I've been investigating Gluster as a solution to some of our website's file-storage needs. We currently have about 500GB of data, mostly images, which are stored on a single server and shared via NFS to our other servers. Unfortunately, we're coming close to running out of space in this setup, and we'd like to move to a GlusterFS system. I have a question (actually several, but I'll keep it to one for the moment) about how we might go about implementing Gluster in our case. We'd like to distribute this across 3-4 servers, using a combination of the AFR and DHT translators to do so. I can see two possible ways to do this, depending on the order in which the translators are stacked. We could either have AFR replicating files between a pair of DHT server sets, or we could have a DHT of AFR server pairs. Is there a preferred way to go here? What are the advantages / drawbacks of the different ways? Thanks, Andrew Watts awatts at gmail.com
