Hi,
Depending on what you plan to do on it, might be better to use
NFS to mount the volume rather than the gluster fuse client.
Did you try this ? You can usually mount it with something like this :
mount -t nfs gluster-node.com:/volume_name /mnt/mountpoint
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:43:47AM +0200, Klemens Kittan
wrote:> Hello,
> 
> For our cluster I've tried different Cluster File System. GlusterFS I
> noticed positively by its simple configuration.
> 
> 
> This is my setup:
> 
> GlusterFS Server: Dell PowerEdge R630 + MD1200
> Debian:	8.4
> GlusterFS: 3.5.2
> Network: Infiniband
> 
> Create the volume (Distributed Volume):
> gluster volume create home-vol transport tcp,rdma \
> gluster01.ib.cluster:/srv/glusterfs/home/brick1/brick
> 
> On the same setup I have previously placed an NFSv4 server and made
> various measurements. In comparison, GlusterFS performs very poorly. Is
> it possible with GlusterFS to reach the bandwidth of NFSv4?
> 
> 
> These are my measurements:
> 
> NFSv4: 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/gfs/home/benchmark bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
> 706 MB/s
> 
> dbench -D /mnt/gfs/home -t 1800 10
> Throughput 241.034 MB/sec 10 clients 10 procs max_latency=25.370 ms
> 
> GlusterFS:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/gfs/home/benchmark bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
> 356 MB/s
> 
> dbench -D /mnt/gfs/home -t 1800 10
> Throughput 45.1128 MB/sec 10 clients 10 procs max_latency=50.154 ms
> 
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Klemens
> 
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