On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:48 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Brian<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> We're applying a Solaris kernel patch for the ZFS performance problem on > >> ms1, our main media file server. > >> > >> While in progress, uploads will be temporarily disabled. Cached images > >> should still display, but you may see some missing images in the > >> meantime... > >> > >> -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) > >> > > > > Have you considered using glusterfs for improved reliability and speed? > The > > more bricks you add the better the throughput and failsafe meaning, with > > hundreds of servers, that you could have a very impressive filesystem. Of > > course, it does stress your entire network and would only be feasible > within > > a single datacenter, preferably on a single rack. > > > > http://gluster.org/ > > Wasn't well received among the high end storage crowd, based on > discussions at FAST this year. > > But that's secondhand - I haven't used it myself. YMMV. > We switched our cluster and lab from nfs to glusterfs and it's been a dream. There is also the possibility of getting better random read speeds than you can get out of a 15k rpm drive. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
