A nice solution of using NFS while preserving FUSE client redundancy benefit. http://community.gluster.org/a/nfs-performance-with-fuse-client-redundancy/ Cheers Vlad On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jeff White <jaw171 at pitt.edu> wrote: > Using Gluster's NFS instead of the native (FUSE) client can get you better > performance with many small files but you lose functionality by doing that. > > There's lots of variance in all of this so the best thing you can do is > test and benchmark on your own datasets and systems. > > Jeff White - Linux/Unix Systems Engineer > University of Pittsburgh - CSSD > > > On 04/03/2012 12:55 PM, Haris Zukanovic wrote: > >> Is there anything to do to optimize the read for small files in a >> replicated gluster setup? The files reside allready on the server in >> question in the brick. >> Something like disable diverse checking for files that I know are not >> updated often? For example web files like images uploaded through the >> CMS. These files are uploaded once and never modified again... >> >> kind regards >> Haris >> >> On 03/04/12 18.40, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >> >>> A bunch of small files is terrible performance. Really not much you >>> can do about that. Store each mailbox in a single file. MailDir format >>> is definitely going to suck. >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:05 AM, David Whiteman<davew at supanet.net.uk> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am currently looking into GlusterFS to use as a storage cluster for >>>> our >>>> email storage. I want to mount the storage from different servers (or >>>> VMs), >>>> services accessing the storage include exim, courier-imapd, >>>> courier-pop3d. >>>> Our emails are stored in MailDir format, which is many small files. I >>>> have >>>> read that GlusterFS doesn't perform very well with small files, is this >>>> still the case? >>>> >>>> I would like to achieve similar (or better) performance to our current >>>> NFS >>>> setup, with the added redundancy that GlusterFS provides. >>>> >>>> Is there any utilities I can use to test the performance? >>>> >>>> Thanks in Advance >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> Gluster-users mailing list >>>> Gluster-users at gluster.org >>>> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/gluster-users<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<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<http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users> > -- ---- Vladislav Tchernev Senior System Administrator Broadsign INT +1 (514) 399-1184 www.broadsign.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120404/1df19147/attachment.htm>
