I tried searching for the gluster source where I read about it few days back but unable to find it. Will search little more and see if I can find that white paper. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Whit Blauvelt <whit.gluster at transpect.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:00:20PM -0700, Mohit Anchlia wrote: >> BTW: Gluster is not meant to be used with databases. > > What's your source on that? Can you point to anything in the Gluster docs > which say this? (I've searched. I don't find it.) What's the rationale? Why > specifically should databases be incompatible with the file system? What > other uses would be "not meant" for Gluster? > > And does this apply, if it does at all, to all configurations of Gluster? > That is, if it's replicating over a dedicated link between two servers with > decently fast drives, is is still a problem? (DRBD does fine in that setup, > why wouldn't Gluster?) Or is it only a problem if, say, you've got a Gluster > FS distributed over N computers, where N is a number higher than some > threshold? > > Whit >
