[Gluster-devel] client config to access (mirrored) storage cluster

Amar S. Tumballi amar at zresearch.com
Wed Apr 2 15:36:36 UTC 2008


>
> As for AFR on the client side - i haven't tried it, but in the time
> between sending my original email and receiving your response, i read
> over this (alternative) HA Gluster cluster document :
>
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Simple_High_Availability_Storage_with_GlusterFS_1.3
>
> This document appears to suggest a scenario in which the fileservers
> have no knowledge of each other, and it's up to the clients to write to
> each of the fileservers (via afr or afr/unify).  In this fashion, the
> clients are ultimately responsible for the mirroring functionality - is
> this a correct interpretation ?
>

Yes, you are right.



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