[Gluster-users] Repost: read access to replicate copies

[Vijay Bellur]

On Saturday 12 March 2011 02:53 AM, Rosario Esposito wrote:
> Thank you.
> I wonder if this is still true for the current version (3.1.2) since 
> that message is quite old.
> It would be nice, for better performance, if a client (which is also a 
> brick-server) could access its local copy of a file rather than 
> chosing a random server and read it via network.

Yes, read happens from the first available server in case of replicate. 
Read requests are not issued in parallel. If the first read fails, then 
the requests are sent to other servers.

There is an option in replicate to have a favored read-server (option 
read-child). Right now, it is not supported through the gluster CLI. The 
support for it would be available in a subsequent release.

Regards,
Vijay