[Gluster-users] Gluster setup question

[Basavanagowda Kanur]

glusterfs--mainline--3.0--patch-621 is not production ready. we are in the
process of testing it for 1.4.0 release. we will be making 1.4.0 very soon.
and you can use 1.4.0 for production.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Aleynikov, Serge <Serge.Aleynikov at gs.com>wrote:

>  Is the glusterfs--mailine--3.0--patch-621 stable for production use?  How
> would I set up ARF with quick-unwind given that I have the following
> infrastructure:
>
> 1. Hosts A,B,C running clients writing to local disk /local/{A,B,C}
> 2. Host D running glusterfs server with mountpoints /mnt/external/{A,B,C}
>  that are stored on NFS
>
> I'd like to ensure that local processes writing to /local/{A,B,C} are not
> blocked if there is congection on NFS.
>
>
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> *From:* basavanagowda at gmail.com [mailto:basavanagowda at gmail.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Basavanagowda Kanur
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:37 AM
>
> *To:* Aleynikov, Serge
> *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster setup question
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Aleynikov, Serge <Serge.Aleynikov at gs.com>wrote:
>
>>  I built it from glusterfs-1.3.12.tag.gz source.
>>
>
> my replies in previous mail hold good.
>
>
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>> *From:* basavanagowda at gmail.com [mailto:basavanagowda at gmail.com] *On
>> Behalf Of *Basavanagowda Kanur
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:50 PM
>> *To:* Aleynikov, Serge
>> *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster setup question
>>
>>   Serge,
>>   I am assuming you are not using source code from repository.
>>   If you are using source code directly from repository, then answers
>> below might not hold good. Please mention the version, if you are using from
>> source repository.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Aleynikov, Serge <Serge.Aleynikov at gs.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I am running several clients writing to local disk that are setup to
>>> replicate data to N glusterfs server processes that use NFS for storing this
>>> data.  I have the following questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Does every write of a process to a local directory managed by
>>> glusterfs client involve syncronous replication of data to glusterfs server?
>>>
>> yes. it involves synchronous replication.
>>
>> glusterfs--mailine--3.0--patch-621 (onwards) in our source repository  has
>> an AFR feature called quick-unwind, which would make replication
>> asychronous.
>>
>>   2. Is it possible that if NFS is slow on the glusterfs server side,
>>> then writing to local disk of a process on the glusterfs client's machine
>>> would block?
>>>
>> yes. fops on glusterfs will block.
>>
>>>  Thanks.
>>>
>>> Serge
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> gowda
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> gowda
>
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