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2011 Sep 26
1
Is gluster suitable and production ready for email/web servers?
...oying gluster in one of my projects for a while and finally a probable candidate project came up. However, researching into the specific use case, it seems that gluster isn't really suitable for load profiles that deal with lots of concurrent small files. e.g. http://www.techforce.com.br/news/linux_blog/glusterfs_tuning_small_files http://rackerhacker.com/2010/12/02/keep-web-servers-in-sync-with-drbd-and-ocfs2/ http://bugs.gluster.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2869 http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2011-June/007970.html The first two are rather old so maybe the situation has changed. But the bug r...
2012 Sep 04
4
Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array
Hi, I've just got possession of a Dell PE R720 with 2 MD1200 disk enclosures. Both MD1200 are fully populated with 12 x 3 TB disks The system will basically be a student file-server running CentOS 6.x serving various size files from small c programs to multi gigabyte audio and video files over GB ethernet. The first MD1200 will be configured as the NFS disk. The requirements are for 6