[Gluster-users] Tuning for small files

[Iain Milne]

> Where you run into problems with smallfiles on gluster is latency of
sending
> data over the wire.  For every smallfile create there are a bunch of
different
> file opetations we have to do on every file.  For example we will have
to do
> at least 1 lookup per brick to make sure that the file doesn't exist
anywhere
> before we create it.  We actually got it down to 1 per brick with lookup
> optimize on, its 2 IIRC(maybe more?) with it disabled.

Is this lookup optimize something that needs to be enabled manually with
3.7, and if so, how?

Thanks