[Gluster-devel] I have some general questions...
Krishna Srinivas
krishna at zresearch.com
Mon Apr 21 06:39:31 UTC 2008
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:55 PM, B P <bajicpredrag at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have some general question abbout glusterfs
>
> 1. Does glusterfs have load-balancing capabilities?
In what context?
>
> 2. Wich translators provide a parallel reading and parallel writing?
> Other words, do I have to use unify translator to achive paralell I/O to/from multiple disks, or I can achive that only by using AFR (if that is the case, then what it is the use of unify for)?
>
I feel you have not got the correct picture of using translators. AFR
is used for
replication of files for redundancy. Unify is used to distribute the files among
the subvolumes.
> 3. Is the FUSE real necessary and what are the benefits of using FUSE on client side?
Glusterfs client will need fuse, absolutely needed.
Krishna
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