[Gluster-users] Per-client prefered server?

[Krutika Dhananjay]

What does "nearest" storage server mean? Are the clients residing in the storage pool too? Or are they external to the cluster? 

-Krutika 
----- Original Message -----

> From: "Yannick Perret" <yannick.perret at liris.cnrs.fr>
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:38:33 PM
> Subject: [Gluster-users] Per-client prefered server?

> Hello,

> I can't find if it is possible to set a prefered server on a per-client
> basis for replica volumes, so I ask the question here.

> The context: we have 2 storage servers, each in one building. We also
> have several virtual machines on each building, and they can migrate
> from one building to an other (depending on load, maintenance…).

> So (for testing at this time) I setup a x2 replica volume, one replica
> on each storage server of course. As most of our volumes are "many reads
> - few writes" it would be better for bandwidth that each client uses the
> "nearest" storage server (local building switch) - for reading, of
> course. The 2 buildings have a good netlink but we prefer to minimize -
> when not needed - data transferts beetween them (this link is shared).

> Can you see a solution for this kind of tuning? As far as I understand
> geo-replica is not really what I need, no?

> It exists "cluster.read-subvolume" option of course but we can have
> clients on both building so a per-volume option is not what we need. An
> per-client equivalent of this option should be nice.

> I tested by myself a small patch to perform this - and it seems to work
> fine as far as I can see - but 1. before continuing in this way I would
> first check if it exists an other way and 2. I'm not familiar with the
> whole code so I'm not sure that my tests are in the "state-of-the-art"
> for glusterfs.

> Thanks in advance for any help.

> Regards,
> --
> Y.

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