[Gluster-devel] Splitbrain Resolution

[Daniel Maher]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:39:42 +0100 (BST) gordan at bobich.net wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Joey Novak wrote:
> 
> > >   As for AFR, the client takes care of the work. 
> > servers are essentially just network
> > accessible file systems, that aren't aware of each other, and thus, 
> > don't replicate between each others at all.
> 
> So for n mirrored servers, the client bandwidth increases n-fold?
> That's quite shocking...

Yes, it is quite shocking - and doesn't make much sense to me, either.
Instead, you can have the servers be responsible for AFR, and let the
clients be unaware of each other.  This solves the n-fold bandwidth
issue entirely (and seems more "normal").


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Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>