Hi , I didnt quite understand from the faqs what is better , gluster site say that distributed is the new way to go while i see other people uses unify Also i see that unify has many performance options while distributed has very little options . So the questune is what is the better way to go for a 10TB file system with 5 servers No replication made seens every server uses DRBD for better stablilty . Another questune is seens distributed uses hash values Is it safe to say that when creating a single server glusterfs with the option to add more servers in the future Is it better in terms of perfomance(seens its working ok) to start with distributed 1 server mode and just add more in the future e.g volume storage1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp option remote-host 192.168.5.1 option remote-subvolume storage1 end-volume volume cluster type cluster/distribute option lookup-unhashed yes subvolumes storage1 end-volume volume writebehind type performance/write-behind option window-size 5MB subvolumes cluster end-volume the valume cluster has only 1 subvolumes in distribute mode Is that a good config for 1 server in terms of perormance ? Ill arucitae also a goood recomendation to perfomance boost for FS with many small files (mail etc..) seens my tests show a slower results then nfs with dd of 1024 blocks while its getting much better on 10240 . Thanks ,