[Gluster-users] Recommendations for a new gluster cluster

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

+ Joe, Lindsay, Roman(Hope you don't mind :-) ) who tried this before to 
share their inputs.

Pranith
On 02/05/2015 08:19 PM, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Good morning guys,
>
> we are setting up our new hosting based on gluster, after
> spending some months on trying out both ceph and gluster.
>
> We selected Ubuntu 14.04 as the base stack and are now evaluating, which
> version of gluster and which filesystem to choose.
>
> At the moment we are seeing 80 MiB/s with ext4, 93 MiB/s with xfs and
> roughly 89-91 MiB/s with xfs + dm-crypt. [0]
>   
> All tests so far have been running with gluster 3.4.2-1ubuntu1 with a
> replicated volume.
>
> My question: What is the recommended gluster version for production (*)
> and what is the recommended filesystem?
>
> Our timelines is a roughly 3 years cycle for offering virtual machines
> on top of gluster, until we will exchange the whole stack again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nico
>
>
> [0] We tweet about our progress as @ungleich on https://twitter.com/ungleich
>      if you are curious.
>
> (*) I saw some problems with 3.6.2 on the mailing list.
>