Hi, I have searched the archive of this list and found some partial answers to my question, so I thought I'd try a direct question. In a nutshell, my goal is to achieve high transfer speed for multiple simultaneous clients using multiple servers. I am not trying to get incredible speed for one client using all servers. Assume a Gluster setup of 10 identical data nodes. I have a large set of data files that can be replicated n times (up to 10). At any point in time, a group of clients could request a set of those files, possibly the same set of files for everyone. Could Gluster manage that each client uses a different server so that, if everyone is getting the same file, then each client would use the maximum capacity of each server's hardware? In other words, using numbers: - 10 servers with 1 hard disk capable of 50MB/s - 10 clients requesting the same file, which is replicated 10 times - Speed for each client would be 50MB/s. Thanks, Laurent Chouinard
