Hi Keith,<br>please find the inlined comments.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Keith Freedman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:freedman@freeformit.com">freedman@freeformit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">At 09:41 PM 1/26/2009, Raghavendra G wrote:<br>
>namespace is just a cache, which holds the directory tree of unify.<br>
>Please note that the files contained in this directory tree are of<br>
>zero byte sized.<br>
><br>
>what about storage scalibality in this design? both server and<br>
>client. can you please give one example ?<br>
><br>
>only bottleneck in scalability is the namespace node. It should be<br>
>able to hold the entire directory structure of unify (with zero byte<br>
>sized files). Other than that, a new node can be added just by<br>
>changing the configuration file and remounting glusterfs.<br>
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</div>so, it would be advisable for people to use a filesystem with a very<br>
small blocksize and a large number of inodes (or one that supports<br>
dynamic inode allocation) presumably?</blockquote><div><br>yes.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
is this documented as a suggestion anywhere?</blockquote><div><br>Its mentioned in the following FAQ.<br><a href="http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_Unify_Translator#Namespace_FAQ">http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_Unify_Translator#Namespace_FAQ</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Raghavendra G<br><br>