[Gluster-users] reading from local replica?

[Brian Ericson]

On 06/09/2015 11:10 AM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>> So, maybe passing these options as a mount command doesn't work/is a
>> no-op, but what I don't understand is why -- given that there is no
>> measure by which glusterfs should ever conclude the replica in the
>> "other" region is ever faster than the replica in the "same" region.
>
> If read-subvolume or read-subvolume-index is somehow not getting through,
> then we're back to the read-hash-mode default - which does *not* try to
> use round-trip-time measurements.  Still, it should give different
> results for different files.
>
>> In
>> fact, it appears as though glusterfs is *preferring* the slower replica.
>
> It's hard to see how that would be the case, since the code to set
> read_child based on first-to-reply seems to be *missing* in the current
> code.  :(  What version are you running, again?
>
Sorry for neglecting to mention the version, it's 3.7.1.