[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Re : HA +unify design with multiply server with multiple client

[Keith Freedman]

At 09:41 PM 1/26/2009, Raghavendra G wrote:
>namespace is just a cache, which holds the directory tree of unify. 
>Please note that the files contained in this directory tree are of 
>zero byte sized.
>
>what about storage scalibality in this design? both server and 
>client. can you please give one example ?
>
>only bottleneck in scalability is the namespace node. It should be 
>able to hold the entire directory structure of unify (with zero byte 
>sized files). Other than that, a new node can be added just by 
>changing the configuration file and remounting glusterfs.

so, it would be advisable for people to use a filesystem with a very 
small blocksize and a large number of inodes (or one that supports 
dynamic inode allocation) presumably?
is this documented as a suggestion anywhere?