[Gluster-devel] Hello... stripping and fault tolerant systems...

[Krishna Srinivas]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Anand Avati <avati at zresearch.com> wrote:
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>> Yes, You can use stripe and afr, preferably stripe over a bunch of AFRs.
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> I would suggest the other way round if you have a read-heavy work load.
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> AFR ( STRIPE (server1, server2), server3)
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> Let afr serve over the stripe for high performance by default, and server3
> be a backup. This works well for read-heavy workloads.

How will afr over stripe help for read-heavy work loads?

I suggested stripe over afrs keeping in mind AFR's currently bad selfheal logic
for big files. Selfheal will be very optimal in stripe over afrs.

Krishna

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