[Gluster-users] Is replica data usable by clients?

[Elías David]

Yeah it does make sense :)

Thanks a lot Paul!
On Feb 16, 2014 11:27 PM, "Paul Cuzner" <pcuzner at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Elias,
>
> Online replica's will be used to satisfy client requests. You'll typically
> see a delay when accessing files, while the cluster determines that the
> node/brick is dead, and then access resumes using the remaining brick(s).
>
> gluster tracks updates against the online replica, such that when the
> other brick returns self heal can get to work and catch up with the changes
> on the other brick.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> PC
>
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>
> *From: *"Elías David" <elias.moreno.tec at gmail.com>
> *To: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> *Sent: *Sunday, 16 February, 2014 12:26:09 PM
> *Subject: *[Gluster-users] Is replica data usable by clients?
>
> Suppose you have a vol made up of 4 bricks in a replica 2 set, so brick 2
> is a replica of brick 1 and brick 4 is a replica of brick 3.
>
> Now if brick 1 is unavailable for whatever reason, are clients able to use
> the data directly stored on the replica? Or the data in a replica brick is
> just used to heal/rebalance/recreate bricks?
>
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