[Gluster-users] Maximum bricks per volume recommendation

[Serkan Çoban]

Putting lots of bricks in a volume have side affects. Slow meta
operations, slow gluster commands executions, etc.
But 150 bricks are not that much.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:41 AM, qingwei wei <tchengwee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there hard limit on the maximum number of bricks per Gluster
> volume. And if no such hard limit exists, then is there any best
> practice on selecting the number of bricks per volume. Example, if i
> would like to create a 200TB for my host, which config below is
> better?
>
> HDD: 4TB (1 brick on 1 physical disk)
> 1 Gluster volume = 10x3 (30 bricks in total)
> total 5 Gluster volumes are created and host will combine them as one
> logical volume
>
> or
>
> HDD: 4TB (1 brick on 1 physical disk)
> 1 Gluster volume = 50x3 (150 bricks in total)
> total 1 Gluster volume is created
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cw
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