[Gluster-users] Fwd: self-healing problem

Christian Schab christian.schab at me.com
Thu Aug 20 07:47:32 UTC 2009


Hello Vikas,

thanks for your reply.


>> On each Webserver is a local brick used as a type of cache.
>
> Can you explain a bit more about how the local brick is used
> and why it's needed?

It is just used as another copy of data.
I feel like using such a local brick optimizes the performance very  
much.



>> Now when we change a file on a Fileserver.
>
> Are you changing the file directly on the backend on a fileserver?

No, we change file in the mounted directory.
So the new files is immediately replicated to the second fileserver.

> Vikas
> -- 
> Engineer - http://gluster.com/
>



Thanks for your help!

Christian



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