[Gluster-users] Confused about Geo Replication..

[Robert Krig]

On 10/24/2011 11:11 AM, Venky Shankar wrote:
>
> On 10/24/2011 02:16 PM, Robert Krig wrote:
>> I've been reading the documentation, but I'm a bit stumped as to how to
>> setup geo-replication with glusterfs.
>>
>> The documentation mentions that you use an existing glusterfs volume to
>> start geo replication. But what kind of volume? Do you just create a
>> standard replicated volume with a replica count of 1?
>
> Geo-rep only needs the volume name. You can create volume of any type
> (plain distribute, replicate, distribute-replicate etc...) and use it
> as the master volume for geo-replication. Suppose you have a
> distribute-replicate volume called 'vol-dr' then you start geo-rep by:
>
> # gluster volume geo-replication vol-dr <slave> start
>

So if I want to just create a simple 2 server master>slave setup, what
would be the best choice for the initial Gluster volume? Replicated with
a single node?