[Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator

[Krishna Srinivas]

Melvin,

HA is better than heartbeat as it makes sure that the failover is
smooth on the open file descriptors taking care of the problems you
mentioned. Give it a try and let us know if something does not work.

Krishna

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Melvin Wong <melvin.wong at muvee.com> wrote:
> Hi Raghavendra,
>
> Tks for the quick reply. Another question is do you know if Heatbeat is
> better choice or HA translator for failover. When we use HA translator, what
> will happen to the open files or current file transfer during a failover?
> Will the clients clashes while  trying to connect to the slave server?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> melvin
>
>
>
> From: Raghavendra G [mailto:raghavendra.hg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:42 AM
> To: Melvin Wong
> Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator
>
>
>
> Hi Melvin,
> I meant HA is also designed to help server side afr setups you've explained.
> Sorry for the typo.
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Raghavendra G <raghavendra.hg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Melvin,
>
> Yes, Heart beat is also designed to help server side afr setups you've
> explained.
>
> 2008/12/23 Melvin Wong <melvin.wong at muvee.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I will like to know is there a need to upgrade my current setup from
> glusterfs-1.3.11 to 1.4.0rc6. What major bug fixes are there in 1.4 since
> 1.3.11? Also, currently my setup consist of 2 glusterfs servers mirroring
> each other with AFR. One of the server is set as master where all the
> clients are connected to it. We maintain HA by using Heartbeat on the 2
> servers. Once the master server fails, heartbeat will failover to the slave
> server. However, occasionally the clients might encounter problems
> connecting during the failover or the 2 servers no longer  able to replicate
> well. Could HA translator in 1.4 be of help to replace the Heartbeat? Will
> it be more stable than Heartbeat during a failover?
>
>
>
> melvin
>
>
>
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