[Gluster-users] Taking control of the elastic hash algorithm?

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

I am considering Gluster for my application.

In my application, I will have 8-10 servers with 10 GigE and 8 clients
also with 10 GigE.

At any time, each client will be doing a linear read of a 500-1000MB
file.  I know ahead of time which files will be read by which client,
and they are disjoint (i.e., some files will be read by client 1,
others by client 2, etc.)

To avoid contention, I would like to have some control over which file
lives on which server.

But I would also like to be able to increase the number of servers in
the future, and have their number not necessarily be a multiple of the
number of clients, which is why something like Gluster is of interest.

So, is the Gluster "elastic hash" algorithm pluggable?  As in, would
it be straightforward to implement my own?

This is an internal application, so I do control the relevant file names...

Thanks!

 - Pat