Re: When to use striped volumes?

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Hi Krutika,

The use-case would be storage for a parallel computing application with high concurrency.

How's striping fit into different use-case scenarios? We are targeting other applications as well, for example, Hadoop, Virtual Desktop, etc.

My Best,
Dave

 
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Date:  Tue, Jan 17, 2017 05:22 PM
To:  "Dave Fan"<dave.fan@xxxxxxxxxx>;
Cc:  "gluster-users"<gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>;
Subject:  Re: [Gluster-users] When to use striped volumes?
 
Could you describe what use-case you intend to use striping for?

-Krutika


On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Dave Fan <dave.fan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everyone,

We are trying to set up a Gluster-based storage for best performance. On the official Gluster website. It says:

Striped – Striped volumes stripes data across bricks in the volume. For best results, you should use striped volumes only in high concurrency environments accessing very large files.

Is there a rule-of-thumb on what size qualifies as "very large files" here?

Many thanks,
Dave

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