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

[Raghavendra G]

Hi Keith,
please find the inlined comments.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> >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?


yes.


>
> is this documented as a suggestion anywhere?


Its mentioned in the following FAQ.
http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_Unify_Translator#Namespace_FAQ


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Raghavendra G
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