[Gluster-users] Server side mount point confusion

[Daniel Maher]

Justin Kolb wrote:
> If you have an AFR server and a process on the server writes or reads 
> directly from the server's mount point (not using a glusterfs client 
> connection) how does that affect replication?

Interacting with the « raw » data is a generally a no-no.  Interactions 
should be done via the client or else they will not be reflected on any 
other members of the storage group.

> correctly, or if doing this negatively affects the system. If so is 
> there a good way to help to avoid this type of direct access?

There's nothing stopping you from running both a client and a server 
process on a given machine.  It's the same binary - just a different 
invocation.



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dan.