Gluster users - Mar 2017 - Maximum bricks per volume recommendation

Hi,

Is there hard limit on the maximum number of bricks per Gluster
volume. And if no such hard limit exists, then is there any best
practice on selecting the number of bricks per volume. Example, if i
would like to create a 200TB for my host, which config below is
better?

HDD: 4TB (1 brick on 1 physical disk)
1 Gluster volume = 10x3 (30 bricks in total)
total 5 Gluster volumes are created and host will combine them as one
logical volume

or

HDD: 4TB (1 brick on 1 physical disk)
1 Gluster volume = 50x3 (150 bricks in total)
total 1 Gluster volume is created


Thanks.

Cw

Putting lots of bricks in a volume have side affects. Slow meta
operations, slow gluster commands executions, etc.
But 150 bricks are not that much.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:41 AM, qingwei wei <tchengwee at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there hard limit on the maximum number of bricks per Gluster
> volume. And if no such hard limit exists, then is there any best
> practice on selecting the number of bricks per volume. Example, if i
> would like to create a 200TB for my host, which config below is
> better?
>
> HDD: 4TB (1 brick on 1 physical disk)
> 1 Gluster volume = 10x3 (30 bricks in total)
> total 5 Gluster volumes are created and host will combine them as one
> logical volume
>
> or
>
> HDD: 4TB (1 brick on 1 physical disk)
> 1 Gluster volume = 50x3 (150 bricks in total)
> total 1 Gluster volume is created
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cw
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