[Gluster-users] Unnecessary healing in 3-node replication setup on reboot

[Vijay Bellur]

On Saturday 17 October 2015 04:15 AM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
>
> On 17 October 2015 at 02:51, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com
> <mailto:vbellur at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     You may also want to check sharding (currently in beta with 3.7)
>     where large files are chunked to smaller fragments. With this
>     scheme, self-healing (and rolling checksum computation thereby)
>     happens only on those fragments that undergo changes when one of the
>     nodes in a replicated set is offline. This has shown nice
>     improvements in gluster's resource utilization during self-healing.
>
>
>
> Does it effect read speed and random i/o? I guess that would depend on
> the methodology used to calculate shard location for a given block.
> Could be quite interesting on top of zfs, love to test.
>

Krutika has been working on several performance improvements for 
sharding and the results have been encouraging for virtual machine 
workloads.

Testing feedback would be very welcome!

Thanks,
Vijay