On 04/03/16 16:39, "Sahina Bose" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 03/04/2016 05:30 PM, Pavel Gashev wrote: >> On 04/03/16 13:50, "Sahina Bose" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Most of the problems that you outline here - related to healing and >>> replacing are addressed with the sharding translator. Sharding breaks >>> the large image file into smaller files, so that the entire file does >>> not have to be copied. More details here - >>> http://blog.gluster.org/2015/12/introducing-shard-translator/ >> Sure, I meant the same by mentioning distributed+replicated volumes. >> Actually, distributed+striped+replicated - >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.0/html/Administration_Guide/sect-User_Guide-Setting_Volumes-Distributed_Striped_Replicated.html > >Ok. Sharding is not the same as striped volumes in gluster. With >striping, like you mentioned, you would require more number of nodes to >form the striped set in addition to the replica set.( so 6 nodes since >you need replica 3 ) >Sharding can however work with 3 nodes - so on the replica 3 gluster >volume that you create, you can turn on the volume option >"features.shard on", to turn on this feature.
Great feature. I think it must be "on" in oVirt by default. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
