> If I had 10 bricks in a replicated volume would the the effective storage > capacity be half the total storage capacity as is the case with RAID1? Yes. > > Next area I am not sure of.. Does GlusterFS only store complete files or > chunks of files on bricks? for stripes it stores a sparse file that shows the same "size" if you do an ls -l on the file not through the gluster layer, but it only has ~ fileSize/stripSize of the actual data (blocks) in the file per brick. > I am looking to store Virtual Machine image files of anything up to 100GB.. > Would the whole 100GB file be resident on one brick? or stored over a number > of bricks? if striped then stored over several bricks.
