> "Glfs has a severe problem with small writes, both with writing small files and small writes into large files. FhGFS does not have this bottleneck." GlusterF

> "Glfs has a severe problem with small writes, both with writing small files and small writes into large files. FhGFS does not have this bottleneck." GlusterFS has implemented many smallfile performance enhancements and with the latest release I am seeing a 20-50% improvement on smallfile performance. There are more improvements in the pipeline: http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/Feature_Smallfile_Perf http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Fea... I would be curious to see these tests run on a properly tuned(readahead on bricks is important for spinning disks and read workloads, I didn't see any mention of brick tuning in the article) and on the latest version of glusterfs with the smallfile performance enhancements.