[Gluster-users] Three Datastores on the same hosts/Disks

2014-11-14 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Moving into production now and looking at reorganising our VM's. It would be kinda nice to separate Server, Development and Test into three separate datastores, on three separate mounts (zfs pools on the same disks). Are there performance implications for this? will they compete for bandwidth a

Re: [Gluster-users] Why is xfs recommended?

2014-11-14 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:24:34 AM Ravishankar N wrote: > XFS scales well when there is lot of meta data and multi-threaded I/O > involved [1]. Choosing a file system is mostly about running the kind of > workload you would expect your system to see, with your hardware > configuration and your versio

Re: [Gluster-users] Stupid question re multiple networks

2014-11-14 Thread Justin Clift
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:15:24 -0500 (EST) Jeff Darcy wrote: > > AFAIK multiple network scenario only works if you are not using > > Gluster via FUSE mounts or gfapi from remote hosts. It will work > > for NFS access or when you set up something like Samba with CTDB. > > Just not with native Gluste

[Gluster-users] Problem in Benchmarking Glusterfs with Bonnie++ on CentOS 6 machines

2014-11-14 Thread gauri Desai
Hello List, I have set up a 4 node replicated distributed Filesystem using Glusterfs on centos 6 machines. I am trying to benchmark the glusterfs filesystem using Bonnie++, but as soon as i run bonnie++ on the client after some time i get an error saying: Stat files in sequential order...

Re: [Gluster-users] Stupid question re multiple networks

2014-11-14 Thread Anders Blomdell
On 2014-11-14 16:03, Jeff Darcy wrote: >> What if the gluster servers are also clients? I locally plan to use >> a number of servers acting as gluster and VM servers, so that gluster serves >> both the VM's and other clients. > > I think that fits fairly well into this paradigm. Note that the rou

Re: [Gluster-users] Stupid question re multiple networks

2014-11-14 Thread Jeff Darcy
> What if the gluster servers are also clients? I locally plan to use > a number of servers acting as gluster and VM servers, so that gluster serves > both the VM's and other clients. I think that fits fairly well into this paradigm. Note that the routing of traffic is by *type* (e.g. user I/O, r

Re: [Gluster-users] Stupid question re multiple networks

2014-11-14 Thread John Hearns
> Heartbeats, quorums, etc. > should also be aware of multi-homed hosts. Definitely for that feature. I have spent the last six years managing an SGI Clustered XFS setup. The heartbeat for CXFS tends to run on a completely private network - a set of dumb switches, and interfaces which carry n

Re: [Gluster-users] Stupid question re multiple networks

2014-11-14 Thread Anders Blomdell
On 2014-11-13 20:15, Jeff Darcy wrote: >> AFAIK multiple network scenario only works if you are not using Gluster via >> FUSE mounts or gfapi from remote hosts. It will work for NFS access or when >> you set up something like Samba with CTDB. Just not with native Gluster as >> the server always tel