[Gluster-devel] Crawling and indexing hardware

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Marcus Herou wrote:

> OK cool. Glad to hear that it works like I thought initially.
>
> But what does "connected" mean ? Can GlusterFS really be disconnected ?

In theory, yes, it can function disconnected, but there is no clever 
reconciliation of split-brain changes, and in some cases it can cause 
massive data loss. We've discussed this over the past few days on a couple 
of threads that are still floating about.

> 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 ?

There is no configuration difference - it comes down to whether all of 
your nodes are up and connected to the network or not.

Gordan