<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 October 2015 at 00:26, Udo Giacomozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:udo.giacomozzi@indunet.it" target="_blank">udo.giacomozzi@indunet.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:-moz-fixed;font-size:14px" lang="x-unicode">To me this sounds like Gluster is not really suited for big files,
like as the main storage for VMs - since they are being modified
constantly.
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Depends :) <br><br></div><div>Any replicated storage will have to heal its copies if they are written to when a node is down. So long as the files can still be read/written while being healed and the resource usage (CPU/Network) is not to high then it should be transparent - that's a major whole pint of a replicated filesystem.<br><br></div><div>I'm guessing that like me, you are running your gluster storage on your VM Hosts and you like me are a chronic tweaker, so tend to reboot the hosts more than you should. In that case you might want to consider moving your gluster storage to seperate dedicated nodes that you can leave up.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:-moz-fixed;font-size:14px" lang="x-unicode">
Or am I missing something? Perhaps Gluster can be configured to
heal only modified parts of the files?
</div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Not that I know of.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">ceph is pretty good tracking changes and only transferring them - heals form a reboot only generally take a few minutes on my three node setup. But it is a huge headache to set up and administer, and its I/O performance is pretty bad on small setups (< 6 nodes, < 24 disks). But it scales really well and really shines when you get into the hundreds of nodes and disks, but I would not recommend it for small IT setups.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Lindsay</div>
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