[Gluster-users] Concurrent writes management.

Pranith Kumar Karampuri pkarampu at redhat.com
Mon Jun 30 16:07:47 UTC 2014


On 06/30/2014 09:26 PM, COCHE Sébastien wrote:
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I understand that the file exist only one time on the volume. But it 
> can be accessed in write, by many nodes (clients) at the same time.
>
> What's happen in those case ?
>
Nothing bad will happen to the filesystem. But the file may not be 
meaningful if the applications writing to it don't synchronize 
overlapping concurrent writes with fcntl locks.

Pranith
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> *De :*Pranith Kumar Karampuri [mailto:pkarampu at redhat.com]
> *Envoyé :* lundi 30 juin 2014 17:49
> *À :* COCHE Sébastien; gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Objet :* Re: [Gluster-users] Concurrent writes management.
>
> On 06/30/2014 07:49 PM, COCHE Sébastien wrote:
>
>     Hello
>
>     I have a question regarding concurrent write.
>
>     How are manage those writes ? Is there a risk of data corruption ?
>
>     Is there a lock mechanism, against corruption ? If yes, how it work ?
>
>     I already had a look to forum and documents but I did not found a
>     deep dive explanation.
>
> For plain distribute volumes there exists only one file in the volume 
> with the data. All the operations on the file happen just like they 
> happen on normal filesystem. For replicated/distributed replicated 
> volumes there are internal locks taken by replication feature to avoid 
> any in-consistencies.
> Please check 
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/features/afr-v1.md to 
> know more about it.
>
> Pranith
>
> Thank for your feedback
>
> Sorry for my poor english  ;-)
>
> Sebastien
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