During my tests I had no issue with ZOTfiles Actually I have to move 33120437 users' files (web, mails, and so on) from 10 servers to a gluster storage. 2012/7/18 Harry Mangalam <hjmangalam at gmail.com> > I think the strong consensus of gluster users would be that this is > the wrong filesystem to use for what you propose. gluster has a lot > to rec it but using it for mail or other ZOTfiles (Zillions Of > Tinyfiles) will bring nothing but astonishingly poor performance, > tearing of hair, rending of clothes, pain, and heartbreak. > > hjm > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta > <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > i'm planning to develop a 4 node distributed replicated infrastructure > with > > Gluster 3.3 > > I'll use 4 DELL R510 with 8x 2TB SATA disks each, giving us 32TB raw > > redundant and distributed capacity. > > > > Some questions: > > - in the near future we will add 2 other identical nodes, will be > possibile > > to extend the gluster volume going up to 32+16GB or raw capacity? > > > > - What do you suggest, RAID5 or no-raid (one disk for each brick)? Our > > primary use will be mail and web servers, so many small files. > > > > Any other advice? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > > -- > Harry Mangalam - Research Computing, OIT, Rm 225 MSTB, UC Irvine > [m/c 2225] / 92697 Google Voice Multiplexer: (949) 478-4487 > 415 South Circle View Dr, Irvine, CA, 92697 [shipping] > MSTB Lat/Long: (33.642025,-117.844414) (paste into Google Maps) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120718/cf20679e/attachment.htm>
