[Gluster-users] Planning a Gluster setup

Nux! nux at li.nux.ro
Thu Oct 25 22:29:43 UTC 2012


On 25.10.2012 17:13, Jeff Darcy wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 12:01 PM, Nux! wrote:
>> I'm planning to deploy a largish Glusterfs replicated-distributed
>> setup. I'm talking large servers with 6-12 hotswap HDD bays. My idea 
>> is
>> to use each HDD as a brick as to maximise I/O. The replica number at
>> this stage would be 3 probably.
>> The one issue that's bothering me is - since one server will hold 
>> many
>> HDDs, how can I instruct Gluster not to keep all replicas in bricks
>> belonging to the same server?
>
> GlusterFS is sensitive to the order in which you specify the bricks 
> for a
> replicated setup.

Aha! Thanks a lot, Jeff.

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