[Gluster-users] Newbie's understanding of GlusterFS

[Sabuj Pattanayek]

> If I had 10 bricks in a replicated volume would the the effective storage
> capacity be half the total storage capacity as is the case with RAID1?

Yes.

>
> Next area I am not sure of.. Does GlusterFS only store complete files or
> chunks of files on bricks?

for stripes it stores a sparse file that shows the same "size" if you
do an ls -l on the file not through the gluster layer, but it only has
~ fileSize/stripSize of the actual data (blocks) in the file per
brick.

> I am looking to store Virtual Machine image files of anything up to 100GB..
> Would the whole 100GB file be resident on one brick? or stored over a number
> of bricks?

if striped then stored over several bricks.