2011/1/14 Łukasz Jagiełło <[email protected]>: > 2011/1/14 Max Ivanov <[email protected]>: >>> Gluster - and in fact most (all?) parallel filesystems are optimized for >>> very large files. That being the case, small files are not retrieved as >>> efficiently, and result in a larger number of file operations in total >>> because there are a fixed number for each file accessed. >> >> >> Which makes glusterfs perfomance unacceptable for web hosting purposes =( > > Everything depends how you want to use it for web hosting. If it's > just storage for static content and all requests going over some > reverse proxy cache (ex. varnish) should be ok. > > -- > Łukasz Jagiełło > lukasz<at>jagiello<dot>org
We are using it for image based storage with virtualization. What is the definition of large files for Gluster, that is a vague statement. ~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham [email protected] ~~~ _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
