[Gluster-users] How gluster parallelize reads

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2016-10-03 11:33 GMT+02:00 Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org>:
> By default, the client reads from localhost first, if the client is also a
> server, or the first to respond. This can be tuned to balance the load
> better (see "gluster volume set help") but that's not necessarily more
> efficient. As always, it depends on the workload.

So, is no true saying that gluster aggregate bandwidth in readings.
Each client will always read from 1 node. Having 3 nodes means that
I can support a number of clients increased by 3.

Something like an ethernet bonding, each transfer is always subject to the
single port speed, but I can support twice the connections by creating
a bond of 2.

> Reading as you suggested is actually far less efficient. The reads would
> always be coming from disk and never in any readahead cache.

What I mean is to read the same file in multiple parts from multiple
servers and not
reading the same file part from multiple servers.