[Gluster-devel] afr over unity, or unity over afr?

[Krishna Srinivas]

Hi Forcey,

Theoritically AFR over unify has to work. But it is not a well
tested scenario. We have tested just so that it works. But we can
fix the issues you might face if you go ahead with that setup.

Thanks
Krishna

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Forcey <forcey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As we know that unity over afr is similar to RAID10, I wonder if afr
> over unity is reasonable or not. Suppose I have a bundle of bricks,
> each with different storage volumes. For example:
>    Unity1: 100GB 200GB 300GB 400GB
>    Unity2: 500GB 500GB
>    Unity3: 150GB 250GB 250GB 350GB
>
> Each unity has 1TB of storage, so that I can make an afr over the
> three unities to have availability. But is this solution as safe as
> unity over afr or not?
>
> Thanks,
> Forcey.
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