Hi, We are building a storage cluster with high availability and high scalability in mind, and GlusterFS project seems very interesting for our purposes. We do have some basic questions before we get down and dirty, and would be grateful if someone could shed some light on this. 1. Can we mount a GlusterFS on a client and expect it to provide sustained throughput near wirespeed? Is there any subjective comparison between reading from GlusterFS and reading from local drives? Does it put extra pressure on the client? 2. Reliability + Scalability means Distributed Replicated volumes. Initially this might be enough for our needs, but as our read requirements grow, the Striped option looks promising. Is it possible to mix Distributed + Replicated + Striped? 3. What happens to very large files. Say 100 GB files. Are they kept as a single file in every node that has the file? Or is it split up and distributed in blocks? That's it for now. I hope these were not too elementary to ask in this list. And, thank you beforehand for your time and effort in replying to my email. Regards HASSAN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110511/4f71efcb/attachment.htm>
