[Gluster-devel] New wiki page for 2 server afr, client side afr

[Brandon Lamb]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Maher <dma+gluster at witbe.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008 08:51:22 -0700 "Brandon Lamb"
> <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A note on RRDNS, maybe my understanding is incorrect, can anyone
> > comment?
>
> From the wiki page i wrote today :
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/High-availability_storage_using_server-side_AFR
>
> "The client configuration is very simple and, in fact, identical on
> each client. It is in this configuration where the RRDNS hostname comes
> into play - the remote-host is, in this case, defined as
> cluster.storagenet.gfs. When the Gluster client process does a lookup
> on cluster, it will store both responses in its cache, then randomly
> choose one to actually use. If the server becomes inaccessible, the
> Gluster client will wait for the period of time defined by
> transport-timeout, then automatically attempt to use the other response
> in the cache. See this thread from the Gluster mailing list for more
> information."
>
> The thread noted above links here :
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2008-04/msg00007.html
>
> And, yes, it works.  I have tested it thoroughly. :)  I would heavily
> suggest reading through the list archives for the month of April for
> further details...
>
>
> --
>
> Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>

Ahhh ok so it is built into glusterfs to handle that, very cool then.

Although that still doesnt solve the problem I am running into

=P