Thank you Brian. I'm happy to hear that this behavior is not typical. I am now using xfs on all of my drives. I also wiped out the entire /etc/glusterd directory for good measure. I bet that there was residual information from a previous attempt at a gluster volume that must have caused problems. Or moving to xfs from ext4 is an amazing fix, but I think this is less likely. I appreciate your time responding to me. -Jon On Nov 2, 2012 4:44 AM, "Brian Candler" <B.Candler at pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 08:03:21PM -0400, Jonathan Lefman wrote: > > Soon after loading up about 100 MB of small files (about 300kb each), > > the drive usage is at 1.1T. > > That is very odd. What do you get if you run du and df on the individual > bricks themselves? 100MB is only ~330 files of 300KB each. > > Did you specify any special options to mkfs.ext4? Maybe -l 512 would help, > as the xattrs are more likely to sit within the indoes themselves. > > If you start everything from scratch, it would be interesting to see df > stats when the filesystem is empty. It may be that a huge amount of space > has been allocated to inodes. If you expect most of your files >16KB then > you could add -i 16384 to mkfs.ext4 to reduce the space reserved for > inodes. > But using xfs would be better, as it doesn't reserve any space for inodes, > it allocates it dynamically. > > Ignore the comment that glusterfs is "not designed for handling large count > small files" - 300KB is not small. > > Regards, > > Brian. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20121102/a97e27dc/attachment.html>
