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

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Krishna Srinivas wrote:

>> If server-side AFR 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.

Is this an issue in server-side-only AFR? I have two servers which are 
also clients of themselves, and they both list their local subvolume 
first and remote subvolume second. Is this a problem? What are the 
possible consequences of this?

Gordan