[Gluster-users] Storage Cluster Question

[Shehjar Tikoo]

Mickey Mazarick wrote:
> Have you seen a distributed parallel fault tolerant file system that 
> doesn't take a serious hit doing mmaps or direct io?
> This is a serious question, I've installed luster to contrast recently 
> and it didn't measure up but I'm wondering what other DPFT filers anyone 
> has tried and for what applications?
> The wiki list is here: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_parallel_fault_tolerant_file_systems 
> 
> 
> Can anyone give a positive or negative on any of these? Perhaps we can 
> use some of the positives of others to drive gluster development.

Folks,

We'd absolutely love to hear from users about your opinion of other
distributed file systems and how they'd like to drive GlusterFS further.

Thanks
Shehjar

> 
> -Mic
> 
> Nathan Stratton wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Todd Daugherty wrote:
>>
>>> I have not used it in production yet but I did a test with:
>>> http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Translators/cluster/stripe
>>>
>>> That was quite nice across 8 servers for Quicktime files (average 
>>> file 1GB).
>>>
>>> Why would you say no to Xen VM files?
>>
>> Because with xen you need to --disable-direct-io-mode to get it to 
>> work and that kills performance.
>>
>> Raw disk:
>> 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 21.0523 seconds, 408 MB/s
>>
>> Gluster:
>> 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 47.4356 seconds, 181 MB/s
>>
>> Gluster --disable-direct-io-mode
>> 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 336.514 seconds, 25.5 MB/
>>
>>
>>> <>
>> Nathan Stratton                                CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
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