[Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator

Krishna Srinivas krishna at zresearch.com
Wed Dec 24 05:32:14 UTC 2008


Melvin,

HA is better than heartbeat as it makes sure that the failover is
smooth on the open file descriptors taking care of the problems you
mentioned. Give it a try and let us know if something does not work.

Krishna

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Melvin Wong <melvin.wong at muvee.com> wrote:
> Hi Raghavendra,
>
> Tks for the quick reply. Another question is do you know if Heatbeat is
> better choice or HA translator for failover. When we use HA translator, what
> will happen to the open files or current file transfer during a failover?
> Will the clients clashes while  trying to connect to the slave server?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> melvin
>
>
>
> From: Raghavendra G [mailto:raghavendra.hg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:42 AM
> To: Melvin Wong
> Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator
>
>
>
> Hi Melvin,
> I meant HA is also designed to help server side afr setups you've explained.
> Sorry for the typo.
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Raghavendra G <raghavendra.hg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Melvin,
>
> Yes, Heart beat is also designed to help server side afr setups you've
> explained.
>
> 2008/12/23 Melvin Wong <melvin.wong at muvee.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I will like to know is there a need to upgrade my current setup from
> glusterfs-1.3.11 to 1.4.0rc6. What major bug fixes are there in 1.4 since
> 1.3.11? Also, currently my setup consist of 2 glusterfs servers mirroring
> each other with AFR. One of the server is set as master where all the
> clients are connected to it. We maintain HA by using Heartbeat on the 2
> servers. Once the master server fails, heartbeat will failover to the slave
> server. However, occasionally the clients might encounter problems
> connecting during the failover or the 2 servers no longer  able to replicate
> well. Could HA translator in 1.4 be of help to replace the Heartbeat? Will
> it be more stable than Heartbeat during a failover?
>
>
>
> melvin
>
>
>
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