[Gluster-devel] Can someone show me server/client configs for this example

[Krishna Srinivas]

Hello Brandon,

On 6/6/07, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah ok.
>
> Well ok so what if i said *:3 with 3 servers, then would i not have to
> setup unify on top of afr? Im assuming if i have 3 servers and want 3
> copies it will work like it sounds?

In this case you don't need unify.

However if you have 3 servers and you want 2 copies of all files and
you want to distribute the load between the 3 servers then you need
to setup like this:

http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_Translators#AFR_Example_in_Clustered_Mode

So unify will take care of load distribution.

Krishna

>
> On 6/5/07, Amar S. Tumballi <amar at zresearch.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Right now, AFR lacks scheduler property, ie, it only replicates to first
> > 'n' servers if you need a replica 'n'. Currently you need to set up unify
> > over afr, and export 2 different volumes from each server and get the
> > required functionality. We are hoping to give this functionality soon.
> >
> > -bulde
> >
> >
> > On 6/6/07, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > If I have 3 data servers, and I want to have 2 copies of every file
> > > across the 3 servers using AFR, what would the configs look like
> > > assuming /home/export is where i want to store my data on all 3
> > > servers.
> > >
> > > To get a raid 1 do i need as many copies as i have servers, or can i
> > > say only 2 copies between the 3 servers and does it do some kind of
> > > round robin to figure out which 2 servers of the 3 to put a file on?
> > >
> > >
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