[Gluster-users] Use single large bring or several smaller ones?

[Justin Dossey]

The more bricks you allocate, the higher your operational complexity.  One
brick per server is perfectly fine.


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:34 PM, John Gardeniers <
jgardeniers at objectmastery.com> wrote:

> Another typo has been pointed out and this one I can't blame on
> auto-correct. The storage size will 5TB, not 5GB.
>
> John
>
>
> On 20/03/14 11:48, John Gardeniers wrote:
> > That title should say "brick", not "bring". I thought I had auto-correct
> > disabled. Sorry.
> >
> > On 20/03/14 11:44, John Gardeniers wrote:
> >> Having experimented with Gluster for the last month I'm now ready to
> >> create a set-up for production.  This will be the storing VM images.
> >> These are less than 100GB each, with the majority being around 20BG.
> >>
> >> The plan is to have 5GB of storage using a replication pair to allow for
> >> fail-over, with geo-replication to another server for backup purposes.
> >> The underlying disks on each server are RAID 10.
> >>
> >> Am I better off creating a single 5GB brick on each server or would
> >> there be advantages in creating several smaller bricks?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
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Justin Dossey
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