[Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

[Jeff Darcy]

On 03/26/2013 05:36 PM, Ian Latter wrote:
> From a user perspective the "cluster" establishment is done via text file configuration to direct nodes to network services;
>   http://www.xtreemfs.org/quickstart_distr.php

Looks like an alternative worth considering.  How does it handle online
reconfiguration (e.g. our "volume set")?  Also, how does a client find a
backup DIR if the primary is down?  DNS aliases?  I think we can do
better than that.