[Gluster-devel] About AFR as LAN mirror

Anand Avati avati at zresearch.com
Thu Jul 19 09:26:11 UTC 2007


Hans,
 AFR logic is completely where the AFR translator is loaded. It is possible
to have the 'mirroring code' work either on client side or server side
depending on where you load the AFR translator. The AFR translator writes to
all the copies in realtime (no lazy replication).

thanks,
avati

2007/7/19, Hans Einar Gautun <einar.gautun at statkart.no>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> A question about AFR:
>
> Case: Using AFR for clean mirroring between 2 bricks (of same size of
> course..) on 2 different servers
>
> Question: Will the file a client write to disc travel from the client to
> both servers at the same time, or will one of the servers talk with the
> client, get the file and then send a copy to the other server(with the
> replica brick)?
>
> Thanks,
>
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