On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Nathan Stratton <nathan at robotics.net>wrote: > 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 The preferred way is using the client and not the backend server. There is some documentation somewhere about it - ill see if i can dig it up. ls
