On 10/02/12 13:01, jason at combatyoga.net wrote: > Basically, I'm trying to figure out if Gluster will perform better with > more storage nodes in the storage block or if I would be better off > consolidating the storage to a few of the systems and freeing up the > resources for the email services on the remaining systems. I've had > mixed results testing this in a KVM virtual environment, however it's > getting down to the time where I need to make some decisions on ordering > hardware. I do know that RAID1 and RAID5 do not compare apples to > apples for performance, I'm looking for thoughts from the community as > to which way you would set it up. With maildir, I believe that fewer bricks would perform better. The maildir format tends to be readdir() heavy. Since Gluster does not have a master index of directory entries, it has to hit every brick in the volume. -- Mr. Flibble King of the Potato People
