[Gluster-devel] Crawling and indexing hardware

[Marcus Herou]

OK cool. Glad to hear that it works like I thought initially.

But what does "connected" mean ? Can GlusterFS really be disconnected ?

I guess you are talking about snippets in client/server configs. Could you
elaborate a little on the difference of connected vs disconnected to open my
eyes a little ?

Kindly

//Marcus


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Krishna Srinivas <krishna at zresearch.com>
wrote:

> I did not intend to mean that you were criticizing (in case it sounded
> like it) :-)
> (Users have right to criticize, it is a good way to make the product
> better)
> As Gordon said in his reply, only one byte is written to AFR's
> subvols, the entire
> file is not replicated.
>
> Krishna
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Marcus Herou <marcus.herou at tailsweep.com>
> wrote:
> > I didn't mean to criticize GlusterFS at all, just taking Daniel's word
> how
> > GlusterFS works. I'm quite a noob at GlusterFS in particular and large
> > storage solutions in general.
> >
> > If it is true that the files will be pushed back and forth by just
> updating
> > one byte in them it will be an issue however if that's not the case then
> I
> > can carry on with my first intent which is to use GlusterFS for storing
> and
> > accessing indexed data.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kindly
> >
> > //Marcus
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Maher <dma+gluster at witbe.net<dma%2Bgluster at witbe.net>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:37:40 +0530 "Krishna Srinivas"
> >> <krishna at zresearch.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > >> Do you plan to do any AFR (automatic file replication) ?  If so,
> >> > >> consider that even a one-byte change to your "big index files" will
> >> > >> cause the /entire/ file to be AFR'd between all participating
> >> > >> nodes.
> >> >
> >> > Marcus, what do you mean by this?
> >> >
> >> > Krishna
> >>
> >> You've mis-attributed the quote, Krishna.  What i meant was exactly
> >> what i said : if you have a 5GB file on an AFR cluster, and a client
> >> makes a one-byte change to that file, then the entire 5GB file is
> >> re-copied to all members of the AFR cluster.
> >>
> >> At least, that's my understanding of the situation - please correct me
> >> if i'm wrong. :)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > +46702561312
> > marcus.herou at tailsweep.com
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