On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Wei Dong wrote: > Hi All, > > We've been using GlusterFS 2.0.1 on our lab cluster to host a large number of > small images for distributed processing with Hadoop and it has been working > fine without human intervention for a couple of months. Thanks for the > wonderful project -- it's the only freely available cluster filesystem that > fits our needs. > > What keeps bothering me is the extremely high flexibility of ClusterFS. > There's simply so many ways to achieve the same goal that I don't know which > is the best. So I'm writing to ask if there are some general guidelines of > configuration to improve both data safety and performance. Totally understand, I am facing many of the same issues, I am not sure if I should be doing replicate / distribute in the frontend client config or backend server configs. -Nathan
