During Gluster Summit, we discussed gluster volumes as storage for VM images - feedback on the usecase and upcoming features that may benefit this usecase.
Some of the points discussed * Need to ensure there are no issues when expanding a gluster volume when sharding is turned on. * Throttling feature for self-heal, rebalance process could be useful for this usecase * Erasure coded volumes with sharding - seen as a good fit for VM disk storage * Performance related ** accessing qemu images using gfapi driver does not perform as well as fuse access. Need to understand why. ** Using zfs with cache or lvmcache for xfs filesystem is seen to improve performance If you have any further inputs on this topic, please add to thread. thanks! sahina
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