[Gluster-users] Production cluster planning

[Joe Julian]

On 10/26/2016 03:42 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> 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. 
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> Ouch :(
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> 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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Precisely. It's very simple.