2008/5/1 Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb@xxxxxxxxx>: > Would I be correct in this thinking? > > 2 servers as data nodes, multiple clients doing afr client side. This > is a new setup where server1 has 100 gigs of data and server2 has > empty directory. > > So by doing afr client side, does the client have to read and transfer > data FROM server1, and then copy it to server2? Would doing server > side afr be faster for this process? Or does server1 magically know to > send the file directly to server2? Im assuming no, because from my > understanding server1 and server2 dont even know about each other as > its the client doing the afr? > > I guess there are multiple ways to get your initial setup, set up as > well? What would you recommend in a situation like this? Setup server > side afr at first to get the data to server2 then take down the > cluster and set it up as client side afr once all the data is copied? > Or just go with the data having to be copied over the network twice > (if this is how it works) > One easy way is to have one of the servers have a mount point (client) and convert the network traffic to loopback traffic (i.e., if you absolutely do not want to change the client spec file temporarily) avati
