[Gluster-devel] Two AFR translators accessing the same subvolumes?

[Krishna Srinivas]

Martin,
The setup should have worked fine, let me check whats happening.
Krishna

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Martin Fick <mogulguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is it supposed to be OK to access the same subvolumes
>  from two different AFR translators?
>
>     AFR1
>    /    \
>    |    |
>    A    B
>    |    |
>    \    /
>     AFR2
>
>
>  I set this up locally so that A & B are local
>  subvolumes to one server and AFR1 and AFR2 run on the
>  same server and are "exported", and I mount AFR1 and
>  AFR2 on two different mount points (also actually on
>  the same machine).
>
>  When I test this setup, I see weird behavior if I
>  rename a directory on the mount point for AFR1 and ls
>  it on the mount point for AFR2:  the directory is
>  renamed, but the attributes seem all messed up.  An ls
>  yields:
>
>  ?--------- ? ?    ?        ?            ?
>  openid.safr2/games
>
>
>  Is this a bug, or should I just never try this? ;)
>
>
>
>  I can understand if this just shouldn't be done, but
>  it seems like this AFR wiki page suggests that a
>  similar idea should be workable:
>
>  http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_1.3_High_Availability_Storage_with_GlusterFS
>
>  The scenario on that page is much more complex and
>  involves multiple hosts, but I think that essentially
>  the same thing should happen?
>
>  Thanks for any insights,
>
>  -Martin
>
>
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