<div>Hi Krutika,</div><div><br></div><div>The use-case would be storage for a parallel computing application with high concurrency.</div><div><br></div><div>How's striping fit into different use-case scenarios? We are targeting other applications as well, for example, Hadoop, Virtual Desktop, etc.</div><div><includetail><div><br></div><div>My Best,</div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div style="font:Verdana normal 14px;color:#000;"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px;FONT-FAMILY: Arial Narrow;padding:2px 0 2px 0;">------------------ Original ------------------</div><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px;background:#efefef;padding:8px;"><div id="menu_sender"><b>From: </b> "Krutika Dhananjay"<kdhananj@redhat.com>;</div><div><b>Date: </b> Tue, Jan 17, 2017 05:22 PM</div><div><b>To: </b> "Dave Fan"<dave.fan@shudun.com>; <wbr></div><div><b>Cc: </b> "gluster-users"<gluster-users@gluster.org>; <wbr></div><div><b>Subject: </b> Re: [Gluster-users] When to use striped volumes?</div></div><div> </div><div dir="ltr"><div>Could you describe what use-case you intend to use striping for?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Krutika<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Dave Fan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.fan@shudun.com" target="_blank">dave.fan@shudun.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone,<div><u></u><u></u></div><div><br></div><div>We are trying to set up a Gluster-based storage for best performance. On the official Gluster website. It says:</div><div><br></div><div><b style=" box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(64,64,64); ; ; ; ">Striped</b><span style=" color:rgb(64,64,64); ; ; ; "> – 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.</span></div><div><span style=" color:rgb(64,64,64); ; ; ; "><br></span></div><div><span style=" color:rgb(64,64,64); ; ; ; ">Is there a rule-of-thumb on what size qualifies as "very large files" here?</span></div><div><span style=" color:rgb(64,64,64); ; ; ; "><br></span></div><div><span style=" color:rgb(64,64,64); ; ; ; ">Many thanks,</span></div><div><span style=" color:rgb(64,64,64); ; ; ; ">Dave</span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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