[Gluster-devel] Splitbrain Resolution

[Gordan Bobic]

Reinis Rozitis wrote:
>> Yes, but if you consider that in a typical setup you have an order of 
>> magnitude more client nodes than server nodes, that starts to add up 
>> pretty quickly.
> 
> Not exactly the right math.. because the traffic increases on a single 
> client only if you introduce a new storage node (so it has to copy the 
> file to additional server). There is no traffic increase on other 
> clients if you add more clients (just the storage nodes get pounded)

Surely, all clients that do writes get pounded. Each storage node sees 
the same amount of write traffic regardless of the number of clients, 
but the client nodes have to produce the amount of write traffic 
proportional to the number of server nodes.

Gordan