[Gluster-devel] AFR problem with 2.0rc4

[nicolas prochazka]

i understand that, but in this case, i have an other problem :
it seems that's load balancing between subvolumes does not work very well,
the first server in subvolumes list is very often use compare to other
server ( in read ) = > so
i 've big ressource network usage and this first server, not in second .

nicolas

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:25:21 +0530, Vikas Gorur <vikas at zresearch.com>
> wrote:
>> 2009/3/19 Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>:
>>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:14:18 +0530, Vikas Gorur <vikas at zresearch.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 2009/3/19 Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>:
>>>>> How does this affect adding new servers into an existing cluster?
>>>>
>>>> Adding a new server will work --- as and when files are accessed, new
>>>> extended attributes will be written.
>>>
>>> And presumably, permanently removing servers should also work the same
>>> way?
>>> I'm only asking because I had a whole array of weird spurious problems
>>> before when I removed a server and added a new server at the same time.
>>
>> Removing a server might not work so seamlessly, since the new client
>> will expect smaller size extended attributes whereas the older files
>> will have bigger ones. IIRC, this was the source of the errors you
>> faced ("Numerical result out of range"). Fixes for this are on the
>> way.
>
> Ah, OK, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up.
>
> Now if just the lockup on udev creation (root on glusterfs) in rc4 and the
> big memory leak I reported get sorted out, I'll have a working system. ;)
>
>
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