[Gluster-devel] Server-side AFR + Failover and mixed server/client-side AFR

[Krishna Srinivas]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:45 PM,  <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  If I'm doing AFR server-side, if a server fails and it's IP address fails
> over to the backup server, what happens? Can operation resume as if nothing
> happened, or is state lost and files have to be re-opened?

The files have to be re-opened in such a state. HA xlator planned for 1.4
would handle this situation.

>
>  If server-side AFT breaks with fail-over, is it possible to use server-side
> AFR on some nodes and client-side AFR on others, with the client side AFR
> nodes talking directly to the same storage bricks that the server side AFR
> is unifying for server-side AFR nodes?
>
>  Or would this break things?

It will not break things as long as the afr's subvol listing order are same.

Krishna

>
>  Gordan
>
>
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