Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster's read performance

2012-09-20 Thread Joe Julian
"Small files" is sort of a misconception. Initial file ops include a small amount of overhead, with a lookup, the filename is hashed, the dht subvolume is selected and the request is sent to that subvolume. If it's a replica, the request is sent to each replica in that subvolume set (usually 2)

[Gluster-users] Gluster's read performance

2012-09-20 Thread Chandan Kumar
Hello All, I am new to gluster and evaluating it for my production environment. After reading some blogs and googling I learned that NFS mount at clients give better read performance for small files and the glusterfs/FUSE mount gives better for large write operations. Now my questions are 1) Wha