[Gluster-users] advice on optimal configuration

[Barry Robison]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Vikas Gorur <vikas at gluster.com> wrote:

>> The goal is to use gluster as a cache for files used by render
>> applications. All files in gluster could be re-generated or retrieved
>> from the upstream file server.
>
> How do you plan to keep the gluster cache and the upstream fileserver in sync?
>

It will be the responsibility of the application. Almost all the files
are write-once, ie once they are generated they never get modified.
The digital asset management system stamps all published files with
version numbers..

thanks,
-Barry