Re: [Gluster-devel] various questions AFR + unify + small files

[Amar S. Tumballi]

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> Aim is 20 nodes (x4 cores) with 1TB disk each, on gigabit switch
>   - we are interested in AFR + unify for having 10TB x2 replications
>   - maybe NUFA
>   - we have tons of small files (10kB) which are our read bottleneck
>   - we want performance (currently we easyly exhaust 4 NFS servers)
>   - our users won't do concurrent write to the same file, except append
>        to logfile (we don't care of order as far as everything is logged)
>
> 1/ which version should we use? 1.3.9.tgz or some more recent from tla ?
>
1.3.9 has some minor problems (like excessive logging in posix_setdents
etc), we are about to make 1.3.10 after a week or two with afr write order
fix. But I suggest latest tla of 2.5 branch as the best bet. (as there is
only bug fixes happening on that branch).


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> 2/ i guess we should use all the performance modules
>
'io-cache' is useful. as you told all are small files, 'read-ahead' is not
so useful.


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> 3/ docs seems to say we should do (unify over NUFA over AFR) ?
>   or is it better to keep it simple and do only (unify over AFR) ?


NUFA is used when each server has a client part too.


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> 4/ i'm a bit confused about namespaces, especially if we use
>   unify + NUFA + AFR. I probably missed a link explaining ns
>   and how avoid single point of failure.


http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_Unify_Translator#Configuration_needed_to_have_redundant_namespace_bricks


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>
> Btw, http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_Volume_Specification
> should be better advertised in documentation, as it is so important.
> I'll write my step-by-step-glusterfs-howto-for-newbies and send it if
> we succeed.
>

Cool! that would be a great help.


>
> Thanks in advance for answers, and for your great job.
> Best Regards.
> Alain Baeckeroot
>
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