On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com> wrote: > We run two somewhat large gluster clusters in production on xfs with great > success. ?I had to go with xfs as ext4 doesn't support large enough file > systems. ?Make sure you mount your xfs partitions with 64bit inode support > and use only 64bit OS's. > > I'm still running 2.0.9 however the performance is pretty good. ?We use ours > to store media for our website and with our smaller two server four brick > 60tb cluster I can easily push 800mbit of http traffic with an average > object size of 2-3megs. ?Not bad for a bunch of slow sata disks! > > Liam > On Nov 15, 2010 2:53 AM, "David Lloyd" <david.lloyd at v-consultants.co.uk> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We're starting to set up a 4 node gluster system. I'm currently trying >> to decide on the low-level options, including what filesystem to use. >> >> For various reasons I would be more comfortable with XFS over ext4, >> but I read in the 'Introduction to Gluster' that 'XFS (can be slow)'. >> >> I haven't found any other details about this, and wondered if anyone >> has more information or experience of using gluster with XFS. Or if >> anything has changed with 3.1. We don't want it to be slow, and I'm >> happy enough using ext4 if necessary, but just wanted to see what >> others thought first. >> >> Thanks >> David >> >> -- >> David Lloyd >> V Consultants >> www.v-consultants.co.uk >> _______________________________________________ Lian, as matter of interest, what kind of setup do you have? i.e what servers / hard drive combination or configuration / hardware or software RAID / 1GB or 10GB network, etc? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532
