[Gluster-devel] AFR in actual use
Brent A Nelson
brent at phys.ufl.edu
Mon Feb 26 03:16:36 UTC 2007
Based upon an earlier comment, when AFR comes out in 1.3 on Wednesday, it
will happily replicate data as it is changed, but a node that goes down
won't resync itself with any changes made while it was down when it comes
back up. Resyncing would be done in a future release by an fsck process.
Is that correct?
If so, some questions:
1) Version 1.3 won't be usable as a fault-tolerant clustering filesystem,
although 1.4 might be, right? Would there be a crude method of resyncing
manually (such as rsyncing the underlying filesystems), at least for
testing until 1.4 is out?
1a) Similarly, what about adding replication to an existing area that
already has data?
2) In 1.4, would the fsck resync occur after the out-of-sync node has
already reconnected as a replica? If not, how would you ensure that you
pull in all the changes made while the fsck is running (but before AFR
kicks in)?
Thanks,
Brent
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