[Gluster-users] Maximum bricks per volume recommendation

[qingwei wei]

Hi Serkan,

Thanks for the information. So 150 bricks should still be good. So
what number of bricks is consider excessive?

Cw

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Serkan Çoban <cobanserkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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