[Gluster-users] Gluster crashes when cascading AFR

[Amar S. Tumballi]

Oops, sorry for this confusion.. Hadn't seen properly that you needed a
specific case of AFR over AFR only.. for you the below mail doesn't hold
good.

2008/12/15 Amar S. Tumballi <amar at zresearch.com>

> Hi Rainer,
>  Actually, you need to cascade AFR volumes with Hash or Unify.
>
>
> http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS#Volume_file_.28volfile.29_Examples
> http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Mixing_DHT_and_AFR
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Amar
>
> 2008/12/15 Rainer Schwemmer <rainer.schwemmer at cern.ch>
>
> Hi Vikas,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick answer.
>>
>> Yeah, I figured it would be slow. That's why im trying to cascade it
>> instead of having 2000 subvolumes directly attached to the top node :)
>>
>> Anyway, I'll have a go at the 1.4.0.rc2 version in the meantime and let
>> you know if it also crashes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Rainer
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 21:24 +0530, Vikas Gorur wrote:
>> > Rainer,
>> >
>> > Thank you for your interest in GlusterFS.
>> >
>> > I do not know of any user who's had an AFR configuration with 40-50
>> > subvolumes, but there is no reason it shouldn't work. The write
>> > performance will obviously be quite low, but in your case since you
>> > will not be making heavy/daily use of it (the only writes will be when
>> > you make a new release, if I understand correctly), that shouldn't be
>> > an issue.
>> >
>> > The version of GlusterFS you're using (1.3.12) is rather old now. We
>> > have a new release 1.4.0 in the final stages of testing. We haven't
>> > yet completely tested the AFR-over-AFR setup yet.
>> >
>> > You could either wait a few days (less than a week) for us to make the
>> > RC1 release with AFR-over-AFR tested or grab the TLA repository
>> > version and give it a try.
>> >
>> > Vikas
>> > --
>> > Engineer - Z Research
>> > http://gluster.com/
>>
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>
>
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> Amar Tumballi
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Amar Tumballi
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