[Gluster-users] Reliable FUSE mount

[Harald Stürzebecher]

Hi!

2011/4/25 Max Ivanov <ivanov.maxim at gmail.com>:
> Hi!
> native (FUSE) client fetches volume config from provided server and
> then connects to all bricks according to config. But what if that
> server is unaviable? Theoretically client can fetch volume config from
> any server, is there any way to provide multiple servers? It will make
> clients able to mount volume even if only 1 brick left aviable.

UCARP (http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp) was mentioned sometimes as
a solution.

Some DNS configuration might work, too - e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin_DNS

The basic idea would be to create a network endpoint that is always
available - even if there is only one brick left.


Harald Stürzebecher