Excerpts from Gionatan Danti's message of 2020-09-11 08:34:04 +0200:
> > we have a 3-node replica cluster running version 3.12.9
> > with 32TiB of space. each node has a single brick on
> > top of a 7-disk raid5 (linux softraid)
> 3.12.9, while being the official RHEL 7 release, is very old now.
If you run a 'find /' would probably take a lot of time.
Now imagine that gluster also has to check the extended attributes of each
file/dir and it becomes quite slow.
Also , we do not know anything of the following:
- HDDs IOPS rating
- mount options for the bricks
- I/O scheduler for your HDDs