On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Todd Daugherty wrote: > I have not used it in production yet but I did a test with: > http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Translators/cluster/stripe > > That was quite nice across 8 servers for Quicktime files (average file 1GB). > > Why would you say no to Xen VM files? Because with xen you need to --disable-direct-io-mode to get it to work and that kills performance. Raw disk: 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 21.0523 seconds, 408 MB/s Gluster: 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 47.4356 seconds, 181 MB/s Gluster --disable-direct-io-mode 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 336.514 seconds, 25.5 MB/ ><> Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com