+1 On 8/8/2011 3:40 PM, Liam Slusser wrote: > I'm in the HW raid camp. Mostly because gluster is not block level, > so with large quantities of files replication can take days or weeks. > In my case a rebuild/resync can take weeks because of how many > files/directories I have in my cluster. > > With hardware RAID I can just replace the disk and a rebuild happens > automatically and very quickly. > > liam > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Gabriel-Adrian Samfira > <samfiragabriel at gmail.com> wrote: >> We use raw disks with our setup. Gluster takes care of the replication >> part, so RAID would be useless for us. Performance wise, you are >> better off just adding a new brick and let gluster do the rest. >> >> Best regards, >> Gabriel >> >> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Uwe Kastens<kisteorg at googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I know, that there is no general answer to this question :) >>> >>> Is it better to use HW Raid or LVM as gluster backend or raw disks? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Uwe >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-users mailing list >>> Gluster-users at gluster.org >>> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
