[Gluster-users] gluster stripe at xfs

[Brian Candler]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 06:12:48PM +0800, 符永涛 wrote:
> I recommand you not use stripe. I didn't make a fully test and didn't
> investige it but from my experience there's no need to use stripe.
> Considering the following:
> 1 performance (When I test it performance is not good for stripe)
> 2 data restore, when data loss or spit-brain happens, without stripe
> you can restore file from backend server very easy

3: stripe does not play nicely with filesystems that do speculative
allocation, like XFS (unless you turn off speculative allocation)