Re: Choice of Translator question

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Hi Gareth,

http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_AFR_Translator

Check out if it clears your doubts.
Yes you can use stripe over afr to minimize the selfhealing time. But it will
have management overhead. Mail back your doubts if you have any.

Regards
Krishna

On Dec 22, 2007 4:23 PM, Gareth Bult <gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using AFR to store a 1Gb database file and if I'm doing this correctly (?) it only mirrors the file when I shutdown the database server.
> i.e. it mirrors on the next file access following a file close .. (?)
>
> What I would "like" it to do is to mirror on a block write .. OR, just to mirror changed parts of the file.
>
> Is there any way to accomplish this, possibly using the stripe translator ?
>
> I've read through the documentation and spent much time playing around, but am failing to find the solution I'm looking for.
>
> I'm also running Xen instances mounted on a glusterfs/AFR, same sort of problem applies although this is less critical .. mirror only happens when I close down the instance .. when I restart the instance it completes a "heal" and copies the entire disk image before continuing.
>
> Can anyone help / explain ?
>
> Regards,
> Gareth.
>
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