[Gluster-users] Do i need to configure vol files?

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 03/24/2015 02:15 PM, Alexander Marx wrote:
> Dear List.
> 
> i am very happy with my glusterfs replica 2 so far.
> 
> i have two volumes (one 16TB raid5 on each server) devided into 2 8 TB
> partitions which are used as volumes
> 
> I configured some volume options via
> 
> gluster volume set ....
> 
> the options so far:
> performance.cache-size: 34359738368
> performance.io-thread-count: 32
> cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full
> performance.quick-read: on
> 
> Now i read in the internet many posts about editing vol files. do i need
> to configure my vol files?
> 
> i have one volfile under /etc/gluster/glusterd.vol
> and for each volume another two (for each server) under
> /var/lib/glusterd/<volname>/
> 
> But in neither volfile i am able to find a translator section of the
> options that i reconfigured.
You wouldn't find them in glusterd.vol file. You would need to check the
client/server vol files (/var/lib/glusterd/vols/<volname> is the default
path) depending on the option you set.
> Do i need to create this sections manually?
> 
> Background:
> 
> actually we are driving a 5 node proxmox cluster which uses NFS as
> storage from a fileserver.
> 
> Now we want to replace this setup with a 3 node proxmox cluster, from
> which 2 machines act as gluster replica 2
> 
> All test showed that the new setup is 200% faster than the old one,
> except a linux DB2 vm, which takes double time to write into database
> (on insert and delete oprations)
> 
> I want to optimize gluster for use of the databases and will now test
> the quickread option, do you think this will bring any performance?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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~Atin