[Gluster-users] Convert to Shard - Setting Guidance

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 21/01/2017 12:07 AM, Gambit15 wrote:
> If your images easily fit within the bricks, why do you need sharding 
> in the first place? It adds an extra layer of complexity & removes the 
> cool feature of having entire files on each brick, making DR & things 
> a lot easier.

Because healing with large VM images completes orders of magnitude 
faster and consumes far less bandwidth/cpu/disk IO

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Lindsay Mathieson