Hi, I recently compiled and tested Gluster 1.3 on Ubuntu 7.04 and all went well. Originally I intended to use DRBD in our small cluster of 2 machines but couldn't get the module to compile. The feature needed in DRBD is really the self-recovery after failure. SO after choosing gluster, I'm looking for answers to two operational questions: 1) If DRBD rolls over from slave to primary and then the primary goes online again, the original primary will become slave and copy/resync with the old slave which is now primary. In gluster is this as simple as using a rsync script to achieve the same? 2) Lustre uses metadata on two or distributed MetaData Servers. I presume this means that if a storage node fails and I go out and buy a new machine and plug it in, the MDS server will re-populate the new server with what was on the old server, based on it's MDS knowledge and the replicated data on other servers. If gluster has no MDS, how can replication take place? There seems to be know "knowledge" of the system like a MDS server has? Regards, -- ********************************* Danson Michael Joseph danson.joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PO BOX 1768, BEDFORDVIEW, 2008, SOUTH AFRICA +27 82 820 4261
