<div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I'm investigating GlusterFS+Swift for use in a "large" (starting at ~150TB) scale out file system for storing and serving photographic images.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Currently I'm thinking of using servers with JBODs and it's clear how to use Gluster's replication sets to give resiliency at the server level. However, I'd like to have multiple bricks per server (with a brick per drive controller) and managing the replication sets starts to look more complicated from a management point of view. Also,when it comes to expanding the solution in the future, I reckon that I will be adding bricks of different sizes with different numbers of bricks per server - further complicating management.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, I was wondering if there is support for (or plans for) failure domains (like Oracle's ASM failure groups) which would allow you to describe groups of bricks within which replicas can't be co-located? (e.g. bricks from the same server are placed in the same failure domain, meaning that no-two replicas are allowed on these groups of bricks).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Or am I worrying about nothing?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><div>-- <br>Jonathan Barber <<a href="mailto:jonathan.barber@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.barber@gmail.com</a>>
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