On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:39:42 +0100 (BST) gordan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Joey Novak wrote: > > > > As for AFR, the client takes care of the work. > > servers are essentially just network > > accessible file systems, that aren't aware of each other, and thus, > > don't replicate between each others at all. > > So for n mirrored servers, the client bandwidth increases n-fold? > That's quite shocking... Yes, it is quite shocking - and doesn't make much sense to me, either. Instead, you can have the servers be responsible for AFR, and let the clients be unaware of each other. This solves the n-fold bandwidth issue entirely (and seems more "normal"). -- Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>
