hi everyone, i am having a few difficulties understanding some of the concepts - especially (i think) because i am not always sure wether i am reading 3.2 docs or 3.3 ? the situation is this: we are doing an evaluation for a rather large system that will be used to store video data. we will need around 500TByte of storage and a sustained throughput of somewhere north of 3GByte/s. we are in the process of setting up an initial, scaled-down version of this. the current setup is this: we have 10 rather stupid storage nodes with 4 bricks and a single 1GBE connection, and another, more powerful machine with a 10GBE interface on the same network as the other nodes and another 10GBE interface on the same network as the clients. the idea was to have gluster stripe & replicate across these 2x (replicate) 20x (stripe) bricks, then have a client running on the big machine that exports the volume to the actual client machines. i have included the current config below, but i think i am missing something fundamentally ? ? and, maybe i am getting the terminology and lines dividing cluster, server and client wrong? any help would be appreciated! thank you! .rm # local bricks, 4 of these: volume brick1 type storage/posix option directory /media/brick1 end-volume [?] volume brickN type storage/posix option directory /media/brickN end-volume # 40 of these: volume gv0-brick-$HOST_NUMBER-$BRICK_NUMBER type protocol/client option remote-host 10.25.178.$HOST_IP option remote-subvolume $BRICK_ON_HOST # (i.e. brick1) option transport-type tcp end-volume # stripe 1 volume gv0-stripe-01 type cluster/stripe option block-size 1MB subvolumes gv0-brick-01-01 gv0-brick-02-01 [?] end-volume # stripe 1 volume gv0-stripe-02 type cluster/stripe option block-size 1MB subvolumes gv0-brick-05-01 gv0-brick-06-01 [?] end-volume # replicate volume gv0 type cluster/replicate option background-self-heal-count 0 option metadata-self-heal on option data-self-heal on option entry-self-heal on option self-heal-daemon on option iam-self-heal-daemon yes subvolumes gv0-stripe-01 gv0-stripe-02 end-volume volume server type protocol/server option transport-type tcp/server option auth.addr.gv0.allow 10.25.178.*,127.0.0.1 subvolumes gv0 end-volume