cloud disk benchmarks

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 05:26:00PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> openstack is using a replicated/distributed gluster for all disk
> back ends - including ephemeral (local) and volume-backed (iscsi)
> Results are here and are kinda staggering:
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/cloudbench.txt

We should contact the gluster people about this. When we were running GPFS
(proprietary cluster filesystem from IBM) on our cluster at my last job, it
was noticeably faster than local disk, and scaled better. Gluster might not
match that yet but it needs to play in that ballpark.

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