How to put files bigger than the brick in GlusterFS?

Question

I need to have a GlusterFS architecture that lets me to put large files (bigger than the brick) in volumes. I'm not going to use striped type because it has performance issue and makes my volumes slower.

Answer 1

You can check sharding volume type in GlusterFS.

check the documentation and try it out: Because sharding distributes files across the bricks in a volume, it lets you store files with a larger aggregate size than any individual brick in the volume. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.3/html-single/administration_guide/#sect-Managing_Sharding