[Gluster-users] GlusterFS performance with small files.

[Bryan Whitehead]

A bunch of small files is terrible performance. Really not much you
can do about that. Store each mailbox in a single file. MailDir format
is definitely going to suck.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:05 AM, David Whiteman <davew at supanet.net.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently looking into GlusterFS to use as a storage cluster for our
> email storage. I want to mount the storage from different servers (or VMs),
> services accessing the storage include exim, courier-imapd, courier-pop3d.
> Our emails are stored in MailDir format, which is many small files. I have
> read that GlusterFS doesn't perform very well with small files, is this
> still the case?
>
> I would like to achieve similar (or better) performance to our current NFS
> setup, with the added redundancy that GlusterFS provides.
>
> Is there any utilities I can use to test the performance?
>
> Thanks in Advance
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