On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Barry Robison wrote: > Hello, > > I have 128 physically identical blades, with 1GbE uplink per blade, > and 10GbE between chassis ( 32 blades per chassis ). Each node will > have a 80GB gluster partition. Dual-quad core intel Xeons, 24GB RAM. > > The goal is to use gluster as a cache for files used by render > applications. All files in gluster could be re-generated or retrieved > from the upstream file server. How do you plan to keep the gluster cache and the upstream fileserver in sync? > My first volume config attempt is 64 replicated volumes with partner > pairs on different chassis. > > Is replicating a performance hit? Do reads balance between replication nodes? Replication will reduce write performance. Reads however will be balanced between the subvolumes. ------------------------------ Vikas Gorur Engineer - Gluster, Inc. +1 (408) 770 1894 ------------------------------
