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.
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