[Gluster-devel] What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

[Raghavendra G]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:03 AM, KwangErn Liew <ke.liew at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Vikas Gorur <vikas at zresearch.com> wrote:
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>> 2008/11/14 Onyx <lists at bmail.be>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just had a problem with a disk failure. It was an ext3 partition, and
>> > suddenly, bc of a problem, it automatically remounted as read-only.
>> > It was not in a glusterfs setup yet, but it got me thinking...
>> > What would have happened if that partition was in an afr setup?
>> > I think glusterfs would hang on a write, correct?
>>
>> No, AFR would not hang. The write would fail on that volume, but as long
>> as the write succeeds on atleast one volume, AFR reports success.
>>
>
> Is there N tries before write is reported to be failed on that volume? Or
> is it failed immediately?


There are no retries. It is failed immediately.


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Raghavendra G
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