Hello, We are interested in exactly the same use case and I am very keen to hear how to do this with gluster after v3.2. Thanks, Frank Frank Sonntag Meteorologist, MetOcean Solutions Ltd PO Box 441, New Plymouth, New Zealand 4340 T: +64 7-825 0540 www.metocean.co.nz On 15/11/2012, at 6:45 AM, Pat Haley wrote: > > Hi, > > We have a cluster with 130 compute nodes with an NAS-type > central storage under gluster (3 bricks, ~50TB). When we > run large number of ocean models we can run into bottlenecks > with many jobs trying to write to our central storage. > It was suggested to us that we could also used gluster to > unite the disks on the compute nodes into a single "disk" > in which files would be written locally. Then we could > move the files after the runs were complete in a more > sequential manner (thus avoiding overloading the network). > > What was originally suggested (the NUFA policy) has since > been deprecated. What would be the recommended method > of accomplishing our goal in the latest version of Gluster? > And where can we find documentation on it? > > We have seen the following links, but would be interested > in any more pointers you may have. Thanks. > > http://thr3ads.net/gluster-users/2012/06/1941337-how-to-enable-nufa-in-3.2.6 > > http://blog.aeste.my/2012/05/15/glusterfs-3-2-updates/ > > http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/back-door-async-replication/ > > https://github.com/jdarcy/bypass > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Pat Haley Email: phaley at mit.edu > Center for Ocean Engineering Phone: (617) 253-6824 > Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Fax: (617) 253-8125 > MIT, Room 5-213 http://web.mit.edu/phaley/www/ > 77 Massachusetts Avenue > Cambridge, MA 02139-4301 > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
