On Jan 7, 2008 9:53 PM, Anand Avati <avati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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!
