Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster Best Practices

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I guess some good advice is pre-mature optimization is the root of all evil. Use the Gluster defaults for your replica volumes, then, when you inevitably have performance issues, identify bottlenecks logically and iteratively: - Raw RAID read/write speeds - Raw network

Re: [Gluster-users] Reading not distributed across bricks

2014-08-11 Thread Justin Clift
- Original Message - hi Ray, Reads are served from the bricks which respond the fastest at the moment. They are not load-balanced. Maybe a good feature for 3.7? :) + Justin -- GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org An open source, distributed file system scaling to several

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster Best Practices

2014-08-11 Thread Joe Julian
The proper way to engineer your system would be to identify the performance of your most expensive processes and design a system to allow those to perform in a way that is in line with your expectations. If you're properly engineering a system, you should know what your performance

Re: [Gluster-users] glusterfs 3.5.2-1 cannot read volume when stripe2 NFS OSX 10.9

2014-08-11 Thread Eric Horwitz
Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1128820 Submitted https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128820 On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Harshavardhana har...@harshavardhana.net wrote: Would you mind opening up a bug and provide glusterfs logs server - also reproduce it while grabbing a tcpdump on

Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Revised GlusterFS 3.6 Schedule [was glusterfs 3.6 beta]

2014-08-11 Thread Justin Clift
- Original Message - snip Nightly builds from release-3.6 are now available at [2]. Testing feedback for these nightly builds would be very welcome! snip [2] http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/nightly/glusterfs-3.6/ This seems to have RPM's, but no nightly tarball.

[Gluster-users] adding bricks to replica volume causes client failure

2014-08-11 Thread Scott Merrill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm testing the process of adding bricks. I have a replica volume with two bricks. I mounted this volume on a client, and started writing data. I then added two more bricks to the volume. This caused the client to complain pretty loudly. Here's

Re: [Gluster-users] Run gluster server from flash drive

2014-08-11 Thread James
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles jjpav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, we are about to get two of these http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-E1R36N.cfm and the seller said that we have to use one of the 36 drives as OS drive. I'd like to avoid using

Re: [Gluster-users] Run gluster server from flash drive

2014-08-11 Thread James
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles jjpav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi James, that post was my inspiration actually hahaha. lol, oh cool. Check out some of the new articles, they are more fun :) I just re-checked the link and you are right, there's an optional fixed internal bay

Re: [Gluster-users] Lots of mount points failing with core dumps, help!

2014-08-11 Thread Franco Broi
Did a major update yesterday to 3.5.2 on all servers and happy to report that it went smoothly and everything seems to be working well. I also did an update of ZOL to 0.6.3 running on linux-3.14.16 and the result of all the updates is a definite improvement in speed of ls for the fuse client,