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

Amar S. Tumballi amar at zresearch.com
Thu May 1 07:41:34 UTC 2008


>
> > Would doing server
> >  side afr be faster for this process?
>
> Server will still have to replicate so there should not be any difference.
>


>
> >  Or just go with the data having to be copied over the network twice
> >  (if this is how it works)
>
> I could not understand this...
>


Krishna,  my understanding is, Brandon is referring to server side afr,
where you have one subvolume as posix, (ie, no network call), so data is not
transfered on the wire. so it can be faster right?

Regards,

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