[Gluster-devel] Splitbrain Resolution
gordan at bobich.net
gordan at bobich.net
Fri Apr 18 13:54:47 UTC 2008
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Daniel Maher 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").
Are you saying there is a way to configure gluster to do this? How?
Thanks.
Gordan
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