Jon, Stripe should be used only if the data usage is a very few files, but each, very very large file ( many GBs in size ). Rest all can use distribute.
Regards, Tejas. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Tegner" <[email protected]> To: "Joshua Baker-LePain" <[email protected]> Cc: "gluster-users" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:00:57 AM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Newbie questions Hi, I'm also a newbie, and I'm looking forward to answers to your questions. Just one question, why would distributed be preferable over striped (I'm probably the bigger newbie here)? > For purpose 1, clearly I'm looking at a replicated volume. For > purpose 2, I'm assuming that distributed is the way to go (rather than > striped), although for Regards, /jon _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
