I've been leaning towards actually deploying gluster in one of my projects for a while and finally a probable candidate project came up. However, researching into the specific use case, it seems that gluster isn't really suitable for load profiles that deal with lots of concurrent small files. e.g. http://www.techforce.com.br/news/linux_blog/glusterfs_tuning_small_files http://rackerhacker.com/2010/12/02/keep-web-servers-in-sync-with-drbd-and-ocfs2/ http://bugs.gluster.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2869 http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2011-June/007970.html The first two are rather old so maybe the situation has changed. But the bug report and mailing list issue in June ring alarm bells. Is gluster really unsuited for this kind of workload or have things improved since then?
