[Pvfs2-users] pvfs2 and growing

[David Bernick]

I can see that pvfs2 is useful for a great many things. We are going to
start testing it soon.

I would like to know if anyone on this list has some basic metrics or
feelings about the following:

1. Performance with many small files (50,000 files that are about 10k
each)? find, ls, things like that. How does it perform?

2. Can pvfs2 grow? I see you can add new servers to the pool (though
with some downtime/difficulty). Will a more scalable solution be worked-on?

3. What's the largest (in terms of nodes and TB) known pvfs2 installation?

Thanks for any knowledge anyone has about this subject!

David