The only thing I might worry about is using ZFS on Linux, I still think it might be a little early to trust it with truly critical data, plus there doesn't seem to be a big ZFS+Linux+Gluster install base to help you if problems come up.
I would use mdadm + LVM2 to create your RAID arrays on each server, creating multiple ~2TB LUNs on each server with ext3 or 4, then layer Gluster on top of that. Craig Sent from a mobile device, please excuse my tpyos. On Sep 24, 2011, at 14:10, RDP <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > May be this question would have been addressed elsewhere but I did like the > opinion and experience of other users. > > There could be some misconceptions that I might be carrying, so please be > kind to point them out. Any help, advice and suggestions will be very highly > appreciated. > > My goal is to get a greater than 100 TB gluster NAS up on the cloud. Each > server will hold around 2x8TB disks. The export volume size (client disk > mount size) would be greater than 20 TB. > > This is how I am planning to set it up all.. 16 servers each with 2x8=16 TB > of space. The glusterfs will be replicate and distributed (raid-10). I did > like to go with ZFS on linux for the disks. > The client machines will use the glusterfs client for mounting the volumes. > > ext4 is limited to 16 TB due to userspace tool (e2fsprogs). > > Would this be considered as a production ready setup? The data housed on this > cluster will is critical and hence I need to very sure before I go ahead with > this kind of a setup. > > Or would using ZFS with Gluster makes more sense on FreeBSD or illuminos (ZFS > is native there). > > Thanks a lot > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
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