Hi, What is the best practice in configuring the storage bricks. I have 4 nodes with each 4 disks. I want to have the best performance so I will make a stripe of these 4 servers. But how can I get the best performance out of each server? 1 - Make a software stripe (with md raid0) over all the internal disks and export this as 1 volume, and then volume create performance-volume stripe 4 node1:/bigdisk node2:/bigdisk node3:/bigdisk node4:/bigdisk 2 - Let gluster do the striping - make each disk a volume and let glusterfs do the striping: volume create performance-volume stripe 16 node1:/disk1 node1:/disk2 ... node4:/disk3 node4:/disk4 Any best practices? Peter Gotwalt