[Gluster-devel] Specify which files should be saved to which brick

[DeeDee Park]

>I dont believe this is required. That would place too much complexity on 
>the unify xlator. Defining different servers and client mount points should 
>be the best way to go here :)
>
>Matt.

Why would the user want to mount a bunch of different mount points. Wouldn't 
it be more convenient for the end user to mount just one point? The fix 
seems trivial for the unify translator --when deciding which brick to write 
the file to, use the list specified by the user as the available list of 
bricks.


>From: Matt Paine <matt at mattsoftware.com>
>To: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
>Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Specify which files should be saved to which 
>brick
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:47:46 +1000
>
>
>
>>I want to store all applications on one brick, and all logs and cached 
>>data into another brick, all user data  and home directories in another 
>>brick, and backups on another brick, etc.
>>
>>Is there a way to do this, similiar to how replication is specified,
>>eg option datalocation /var/*:brick1,/home/*:brick2-afr
>
>No, not by specifying an option, but you can simply have a number of server 
>bricks which will achieve that. Have a server for /var, a server for /home 
>- and have the client mount each server in the place thats required.
>
>
>>This way, I can put more replication on user data, and less so on less 
>>important data, similiar to how afr can specify which types of files get x 
>>number of backups.
>
>Having different servers, you could specify different afr across each 
>server doing exactly that.
>
>
>>If not, please add to feature request maybe to the unify translator.
>
>I dont believe this is required. That would place too much complexity on 
>the unify xlator. Defining different servers and client mount points should 
>be the best way to go here :)
>
>Matt.
>
>
>
>
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