On 06/01/2012 09:53 AM, Brian Candler wrote: > * What form of RAID are you planning to use for the data? Hardware > raid controller or software md raid? RAID10, RAID6, ..? For a mixed > I/O pattern which contains more than a tiny amount of writes, don't > even consider RAID5 or RAID6. * Why three bricks per node? Are you > planning to split the 12 x 2 TB drives into three 4-drive arrays? * > What sort of network are you linking this to the compute nodes with? > GigE, 10gigE, Infiniband, something else? Is this common knowledge, one shouldn't use RAID5/6 on gluster? I was actually considering ;-) doing just that (with software raid) on a backup file system in a HPC environment. Regards, /jon
