[Gluster-devel] Replicate/AFR Using Broadcast/Multicast?

[Bernard Li]

Hi Craig:

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Craig Carl <craig at gluster.com> wrote:

>     PGM is still experimental so it will be a while before we would consider
> implementing it, I would also expect to see network issues as a cluster
> grows. It would also limit a Gluster cluster to a single broadcast domain.
> We would have to find a way to manage these challenges, do you have any
> thoughts?

If you decide to implement something like that take a look at OpenPGM
-- looks like a pretty stable project:

http://code.google.com/p/openpgm/

Cheers,

Bernard