I'm looking at setting up a new Gluster Cluster, and I have a question 
regarding mounting the volumes via clients...

According to what I've read, the documentation varies, or doesn't cover this in 
the best detail.

It says the native glusterFS will provide the best concurrency.  And I've read 
if you are accessing lots of small files NFS is the best option.

My question is, if I choose to use NFS to mount the volumes on client machines, 
will this support concurrency amongst all the nodes, or when you provide the IP 
address of the storage node as part of the mount option in /etc/fstab or mount 
command, will all reads and write operations from that client hit just the 
server listed in the mountpoint?

Basically, if I use NFS, do I then need to remember to have the clients point 
to the different IPs of the physical storage nodes to balance IO, or do I need 
to setup a proxy of some sort for load balancing, or is gluster taking care of 
concurrency auto-magically even if I use NFS?

Thank you,
Taylor


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