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Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or serv
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Brandon Lamb |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:15:43 -0800 |
On Jan 7, 2008 9:53 PM, Anand Avati <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I got some very odd failover problems when using the RR DNS failover
> > config (when testing failures mid-write, etc), but that was a few
> > versons back. I highly recommend using AFR on the client side as a
> > failover solution. It's very robust, and easy to deal with on the
> > server end (since you have a full copy of the file system on each
> > server).
>
>
> You might need some 'read-subvolume' option set in your serverside AFR to
> prefer local volumes to remote ones while reading which is the most likely
> reason for performance fluctuations.
>
> If you have more than two servers it's not the most efficient
> > use of your space though.
>
>
> If you have more than N servers, while you want only N copies of files, you
> can make efficient usage of space by exporting multiple volumes from the
> same server, and having M interleaved AFRs which are unifed with one 'unify'
> xlator.
>
> thanks,
> avati
>
>
> --
> If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
> As Dame Fortune did intend,
> Murphy would be there to tell me
> The pot's at the other end.
Haha wow should I feel pretty stupid for not totally understanding that? =P
Is there a mac version of GlusterFS with a pretty GUI?
hehe!
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, (continued)
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Brandon Lamb, 2008/01/07
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, matthew zeier, 2008/01/07
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Brandon Lamb, 2008/01/07
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, matthew zeier, 2008/01/07
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Brandon Lamb, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, matthew zeier, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Kevan Benson, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server,
Brandon Lamb <=
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Sascha Ottolski, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Sascha Ottolski, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Sascha Ottolski, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Anand Avati, 2008/01/08
- Re: [Gluster-devel] Confused on AFR, where does it happen client or server, Kevan Benson, 2008/01/08