[Gluster-devel] Client side afr versus server side, doing a self-heal

[Brandon Lamb]

Would I be correct in this thinking?

2 servers as data nodes, multiple clients doing afr client side. This
is a new setup where server1 has 100 gigs of data and server2 has
empty directory.

So by doing afr client side, does the client have to read and transfer
data FROM server1, and then copy it to server2? Would doing server
side afr be faster for this process? Or does server1 magically know to
send the file directly to server2? Im assuming no, because from my
understanding server1 and server2 dont even know about each other as
its the client doing the afr?

I guess there are multiple ways to get your initial setup, set up as
well? What would you recommend in a situation like this? Setup server
side afr at first to get the data to server2 then take down the
cluster and set it up as client side afr once all the data is copied?
Or just go with the data having to be copied over the network twice
(if this is how it works)