[Gluster-users] Difference in transltors and a question about live heal

[Jeffry Molanus]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 21:34 +0530, Basavanagowda Kanur wrote:
> Davide,
>   Replies inline.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Davide D'Amico
> <davide.damico at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         I was looking for a scalable-ha nfs storage solution and
>         glusterfs seems to be
>         the only out there :-)
>         
>         I was reading the documentation and I cannot find the
>         difference
>         between "Replicate
>         Translator" and "HA Translator": the latest seems to be a
>         particular case of the
>         first one when I have only two bricks. Is it right?
> Replicate translator provides replication feature, whereas HA (High
> Availability) translator provides high availability, HA does not do
> any replication. 
> 
>         

Care to explain how it does work then? How can a file be HA if the
server that went down is not replicated?


>         I intend to create a scalable nfs cluster, so I can add
>         storage nodes
>         to increase
>         storage size: have I to use unify on top of AFR translator
>         (i.e. unify
>         on a replicated
>         volume?).
> you can use 'distribute' (formerly DHT) translator over AFR. 
> 
>         
>         
>         I've read that glusterfs has problems with self-healing and
>         opened
>         files: is it true?
>         
>         
>         Thanks in advance,
>         
>         --
>         d.
>         
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