[Gluster-users] sharding in glusterfs

[Serkan Çoban]

Did you try disperse volume? It may work your workload I think.
We are using disperse volumes for archive workloads with 2GB files and
I did not encounter any problems.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 1:43 AM Ashayam Gupta
<ashayam.gupta at alpha-grep.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> We are currently using glusterfs for storing large files with write-once and multiple concurrent reads, and were interested in understanding one of the features of glusterfs called sharding for our use case.
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> So far from the talk given by the developer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAlLy9k65Gw] and the git issue [https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/290] , we know that it was developed for large VM images as use case and the second link does talk about a more general purpose usage , but we are not clear if there are some issues if used for non-VM image large files [which is the use case for us].
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> Therefore it would be helpful if we can have some pointers or more information about the more general use-case scenario for sharding and any shortcomings if any , in case we use it for our scenario which is non-VM large files with write-once and multiple concurrent reads.Also it would be very helpful if you can suggest the best approach/settings for our use case scenario.
>
> Thanks
> Ashayam Gupta
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