[Gluster-users] Glusterfs over wan?

Count Zero countz at gmail.com
Thu May 27 14:48:01 UTC 2010


I agree with you, something is wrong with the configuration of this list, specifically.
I have to click "Reply All", then remove the specific person's email address.
If I click just "Reply", it will reply directly to the person, not to the list.

Works fine for me on other lists...


On May 27, 2010, at 5:42 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

>> Excuse me, can you say me how I answer to a thread on the maillist ? ..
>> I think that normally I musn't reply to the mail that I received..
>> 
> ARGH!!! I *hate* the configuration of this list - I intended it to be
> posted that way. You have to either hit <reply all>, or cut and paste the
> list address in, where *none* of the mailing lists I've been on for 10-15
> years are that way - reply is to the list.
> 
>> First, thank you for your answer..
>> 
>> And then, imagine this scenario..
>> 
>> We have just two gluster serveur with a replicated volume betweem those
>> server..> The connexion between the two site (geographically sepate) is
> one fiber
>> connection (1gb symetric)
>> 
>> What do you think..? A gluster implementation is now possible with this
>> conditions ?
> 
> How many km apart? And again, do the test I suggested: ping on your LAN,
> then ping on your WAN, and see the difference.
> 
>        mark
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for the time you take for me.. !
>> 
>> On 27 mai 10 16:22 <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Hello !
>>>> 
>>>> sorry for english, but, just don't understand why glusterfs is not
>>>> destinated to be used over the wan ?
>>>> I think that if the files are tiny, there's no problem to use this
>>>> solution over wan.. ?
>>>> 
>>>> But okay, if file are large.. (don't know .. 100MB - 200MB and
>>>> more.) i
>>>> understand that it depend of the internet connection and that's the
>>>> replication can be so soo soo slow..
>>>> 
>>>> Please, give me some renseignments about this solution over wan
>>> 
>>> Ok, think of this: ping a server over your LAN. Now ping the server on
>>> the
>>> WAN you want to replicate to. What's the difference in milliseconds?
>>> Now
>>> multiply that difference by the number of small files, and make a wild
>>> stab at how many packets each will need, and multiply by *that*.
>>> 
>>> How many seconds, not milliseconds, per transaction?
>>> 
>>> Just because it's moving at close to the speed of light does *not*
>>> mean
>>> there is no measurable time, and it *certainly* does not mean that it
>>> doesn't multiply fast.
>>> 
>>> mark
>>> 
> 
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