[Gluster-users] iscsi with gluster
Liam Slusser
lslusser at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 09:07:43 UTC 2010
I have a gfs2 cluster and have found the performance to be
outstanding. It's great with small files. It's hard to say how it
compares to my gluster cluster since I designed them to do different
tasks. But since the storage is all shared block level it does have
many advantages.
Liam
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:29 AM, "miloska at gmail.com" <miloska at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> You COULD run gluster on top of an iscsi mounted volume...but why
>> would you want too? If you already have an iscsi SAN why not use
>> gfs2
>> or something like that?
>>
>
> You need full cluster infrastructure for that - Gluster is a much
> simpler solution.
>
> GFS2 is also _very_ slow, although I never run a test to compare it
> with Gluster, but my feeling is that Gluster much faster.
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