[Gluster-users] DHT and AFR question

2009-07-21 Thread Matt M
Hi, I'm setting up gluster to share /usr/local among 24 compute nodes. The basic goal is to be able to change files in /usr/local in one place, and have it replicate out to all the other nodes. What I'd like to avoid is having a single point of failure where one (or several) nodes go down a

Re: [Gluster-users] Problem with fs hang

2009-06-11 Thread Matt M
Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hello all, I am evaluating glusterfs currently and therefore use a testbed consisting of four (real) boxes, two configured as fileservers, two as clients, see configs below. All I have to do to make the fs hang on both clients (sooner or later) is to run bonnie (a

Re: [Gluster-users] another NFS vs glusterfs performance question

2009-05-28 Thread Matt M
Paolo Pisati wrote: could you try a different speed/stress test? for example, download the latest firefox archive (or any other big-enough compilable application), decompress it on the server, export the filesystem via nfs and via gfs, and try to compile it from the client: what's the differ

Re: [Gluster-users] another NFS vs glusterfs performance question

2009-05-21 Thread Matt M
t=200000 && sync" Any ideas? Thanks, Matt Matt M wrote: Hi All, I'm new to gluster and have a basic test environment of three old PCs: two servers and one client. I've currently got it configured to do AFR on the two servers and HA on the client, acc

[Gluster-users] another NFS vs glusterfs performance question

2009-04-28 Thread Matt M
Hi All, I'm new to gluster and have a basic test environment of three old PCs: two servers and one client. I've currently got it configured to do AFR on the two servers and HA on the client, according to this example: http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/High-availability_storage_using_serve