[Gluster-users] Newbie questions

[Tejas N. Bhise]

Jon,

Stripe should be used only if the data usage is a very few files, but each, very very large file ( many GBs in size ). 
Rest all can use distribute. 

Regards,
Tejas.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Tegner" <tegner at foi.se>
To: "Joshua Baker-LePain" <jlb17 at duke.edu>
Cc: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:00:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Newbie questions

Hi, I'm also a newbie, and I'm looking forward to answers to your questions.

Just one question, why would distributed be preferable over striped (I'm 
probably the bigger newbie here)?

> For purpose 1, clearly I'm looking at a replicated volume.  For 
> purpose 2, I'm assuming that distributed is the way to go (rather than 
> striped), although for 

Regards,

/jon
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