On 3/16/12 10:30 AM, Marcus Bointon wrote: > On 16 Mar 2012, at 00:33, David Coulson wrote: > >> Is there a FAQ/document somewhere with optimal mkfs and mount options for ext4 and xfs? Is xfs still the 'desired' filesystem for gluster bricks? > > Something that I think would really help gluster is to have an online configuration builder along the lines of Percona's MySQL config wizard: http://tools.percona.com/wizard > I think there are a lot of parallels: a large number of (often underdocumented) variables, but some common usage scenarios. I'm really hoping for something like a pfSense distro that wraps gluster up in a nice web GUI. It'd be great to have an appliance-like OS that just works out of the box with a couple clicks. But that takes time, I understand, ... and I'll be patient :-) Meanwhile, I'm gonna keep working with Gluster and see if I can get the performance. Recently I converted to using Linux Raid 10 on 4 1TB drives and now I'm getting 310 MB/s write speed to my brick using "dd" test. That's looking better and getting closer to maxing out a 1GbE link. I need to put gluster on top of this and see if I can continue the throughput all the way to the client mount. As another test, I'm planning to buy some 480 GB SSD drives which can do 300+ MB/s each. I'm thinking if I build a Raid 10 configuration with those, I might be able to push upwards of 1000+ MB/s. Then, let Gluster and/or Samba sit on top of that and we'll see what's what. -- Dante D. Dante Lorenso dante at lorenso.com
