[Gluster-devel] glusterfs file replication question

[Krishna Srinivas]

Hi Roland,
You are right. The entire file is copied.
Krishna

On Feb 17, 2008 5:12 PM,  <devzero at web.de> wrote:
> hello !
>
> first off, i think glusterfs is great. i have waited/searched very long for something like this!
> thanks for making it !
>
> i`m new to glusterfs and have a question:
>
> if i use afr to have redundant copies of files to be stored on 2 or more nodes - when one node goes down and comes back online - what does  this mean regarding transferred amount of data for "resync" ?
>
> say i had 10 files open at the time of the crash of a node, and each of those files is sized 1gb - will the "resync" then transfer 10gb of data over the network, i.e. doing a complete copy from the working node to the previously failed one ?
>
> regards
> roland
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