Hi all, I'm considering setting up Gluster, and have a few questions if you don't mind. 1. Which option is better? I already have a few CentOS 5.5. server setup. Would it be better to just install GlusterFS, or to install Gluster Storage Platform from scratch? How / where can I see a full comparison between the 2? Are there any performance / management benefits in choosing the one of the other? 2. I need reliability and speed. From what I understand, I could setup 2 servers to work similar to software RAID1 (mirroring). Is it also correct to assume that I could use 4 servers in a RAID10 / 1+0 type setup? But then obviously serverA & serverB will be mirrored, and serverC & serverD together? What happens to the data? Does it get filled randomly between the 2 sets of servers, or does it get put onto serverA & B first, till it's full then move over to C & D? 3. Has anyone noticed any considerable differences in using 1x 1GB NIC & 2x 1GB NIC's bonded together? Or should I rather use a Quad port NIC if / where possible? 4. How do clients (i.e. users) connect if I want to give them normal FTP / SMB / NFS access? Or do I need to mount the exported Gluster to another Linux server first which runs these services already? 5. If there's 10 Gluster servers, for example, with a lot of data spread out across them. How do the clients connect, exactly? I.e. do they all connect to a central server which then just "fetches and delivers" the content to the clients, or do the client's connect directly to the specific server where their content is? i.e. is the network traffic split evenly across the servers, according to where the data is stored? tia :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532
