[Gluster-users] IO performance cut down when VM on Gluster

[Bharata B Rao]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski
<skraw at ithnet.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for telling the people openly that FUSE is a performance problem
> which could be solved by a kernel-based glusterfs.
>
> Do you want to make drivers for every application like qemu? How many burnt
> manpower will it take until the real solution is accepted?
> It is no solution to mess around _inside_ the VM for most people, you simply
> don't want _customers_ on your VM with a glusterfs mount. You want them to see
> a local fs only.

Just wondering if there is a value in doing dm-glusterfs on the lines
similar to dm-nfs
(https://blogs.oracle.com/OTNGarage/entry/simplify_your_storage_management_with).

I understand GlusterFS due to its stackable translator nature and
having to deal with multiple translators at the client end might not
easily fit to this model, but may be something to think about ?

Regards,
Bharata.
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