Did you try GlusterFS on ArchLinux ( http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_on_ArchLinux) ? as Xenserver is based on as far i know On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Nathan Stratton <nathan at robotics.net>wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Alexandre Emeriau wrote: > > Hello, >> >> What is for you the best GlusterFS scenario in using XenServer (i'm not >> talking about Xen on a linux but XenServer baremetal) for a web farm >> (Apache-Tomcat) ? I were thinking of using ZFS as the filesystem for the >> different nodes. >> >> The objectives/needs : >> >> * A storage cluster with the capacity equal to at least 1 node(assuming >> all >> nodes are the same). >> * being able to lose/take down any one brick in the cluster at any time >> without a loss of data. >> * more than the throughput of a single server, if not in overall speed, >> then >> in width. >> * being able to add more bricks in and have the expectation of increased >> storage capacity and throughput. >> * present the storage as a single entity >> > > This is all doable, the only downside is that last time I tested even with > raw RAID 6 IO of 400 meg, I was only able to get 25 MB/s with > --disable-direct-io-mode. > > <> >> > Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com >
