During my tests I had no issue with ZOTfiles<div>Actually I have to move 33120437 users' files (web, mails, and so on) from 10 servers to a gluster storage.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/18 Harry Mangalam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hjmangalam@gmail.com" target="_blank">hjmangalam@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the strong consensus of gluster users would be that this is<br>
the wrong filesystem to use for what you propose. gluster has a lot<br>
to rec it but using it for mail or other ZOTfiles (Zillions Of<br>
Tinyfiles) will bring nothing but astonishingly poor performance,<br>
tearing of hair, rending of clothes, pain, and heartbreak.<br>
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hjm<br>
<br>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta<br>
<<a href="mailto:gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com" target="_blank">gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> i'm planning to develop a 4 node distributed replicated infrastructure with<br>
> Gluster 3.3<br>
> I'll use 4 DELL R510 with 8x 2TB SATA disks each, giving us 32TB raw<br>
> redundant and distributed capacity.<br>
><br>
> Some questions:<br>
> - in the near future we will add 2 other identical nodes, will be possibile<br>
> to extend the gluster volume going up to 32+16GB or raw capacity?<br>
><br>
> - What do you suggest, RAID5 or no-raid (one disk for each brick)? Our<br>
> primary use will be mail and web servers, so many small files.<br>
><br>
> Any other advice?<br>
><br>
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