Not to continue an off-topic thread, but how big was your Gluster deployment? I am curious because we found it unusable with ~50TB and 5-10 million files (even though our goal was several hundred).
Jordan > Hi all, > > Regarding to the comparsion of Lustre with GlusterFS, i have the > fallowing together with the attached file. > > I used this in a presentation at > http://www.beliefproject.org/events/4th-belief-international-symposium > > It can be a start of comparsion. GlusterFS has a lower performance, > but we can make a RAID 10 though the network, in the case that the > glusterfs equivalent of OST are DAS( ie, internal disk, not a SAN > lun). Also, apparently, there is no deadlock when the glusterfs node > is simultaneously configured to be client and server. > > In my experince, the integration between most recent kernels with > glusterfs and patches of Xen hypervisor works well. The same with > Lustre is harder to do. > > Although, there is issues when trying to boot up a virtual machine > image stored in glusterfs mount point. > > Also glusterfs has lower performance when overwriting files when > compared with the write process. > > Apparently glusterfs does not stripe files between nodes and > apparently there is a single file limit size asspciated to the space > available in the gluster equivalent to OST. > > I am waiting for version 2 of Lustre. > > Best Regards. > -- > Ettore Enrico Delfino Ligorio > [email protected] > 55-11-9145-6151 >
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