On Thursday 26 June 2014 12:52:13 Dan Lambright wrote: > I don't think brick splitting implemented by LVM would affect directory > browsing any more than adding an additional brick would, >
Yes, splitting a brick in LVM should be the same than adding a normal brick. The main problem I see is that adding normal bricks decrease the browsing speed, so splitting bricks will also degrade it. I've seen a configuration with only 14 bricks (7 replica-2 sets) where browsing was not possible: directory listings with no more than a few hundreds of files took up to a minute or even more if the directory wasn't accessed for a long time. This is not usable. This wasn't a hardware problem: servers had 2 CPU's with 6 cores each and hyperthreading (total 24 cores), 64 GB of RAM and Infiniband network. File system was formated using XFS. I fear what can happen if the number of bricks grow considerably by splitting without solving this problem before... Xavi _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@gluster.org http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
