[Gluster-users] Production cluster planning

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 27/10/2016 8:14 AM, Joe Julian wrote:
> To be fair, though, I can't blame ceph. We had a cascading hardware 
> failure with those storage trays. Even still, if it had been gluster - 
> I would have had files on disks. 

Ouch :(


In that regard how do you view sharding? why not as simple as pulling a 
whole file off disk it still seems straightforward. I haven't tried it 
yet (really should) but it should just be a matter of getting the guid 
for a filename, then concatenating the shards in order by their extension.


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Lindsay Mathieson