[Sheepdog] Advice on heavy small/random-IO use-case

MORITA Kazutaka morita.kazutaka at lab.ntt.co.jp
Tue Jan 4 07:54:12 CET 2011


At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:43:11 +0530,
Naresh V wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I intend to stage sheepdog for a email-storage use-case; I was
> wondering if sheepdog is advisable for such a use-case?
> I'm especially intrigued by its linear-scalability.

Sheepdog achieves a low latency by simplifying its architecture, so I
guess it shows a better performance for small sized I/Os than other
similar systems.  If not, please inform us and I'd like to make it
better :)


Thanks,

Kazutaka



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