[Gluster-users] GlusterFS 3.1 on Amazon EC2 Questions

[Craig Carl]

Craig - 
You can read from the back-end, but yes, we can't guarantee the timeliness or consistency of that data. Most users limit that access to backups, non-critical maintenance tasks. 

Thanks, 

Craig 

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Craig Carl 
Senior Systems Engineer 
Gluster 


From: "Craig Box" <craig.box at gmail.com> 
To: "Craig Carl" <craig at gluster.com> 
Cc: "Joshua Saayman" <joshua at saayman.me>, gluster-users at gluster.org 
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 7:25:33 AM 
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS 3.1 on Amazon EC2 Questions 

Hi Craig, 




2. You can read from the back end, all writes should go through the Gluster mount point. 



This contradicts what I have read in the past. If a file is out of date on the current node, you won't get the updated version, so you are always supposed to read from the mount point. Right? 


Craig