On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Basically yea. So with server side afr server1 would send a copy to > server2. > > With client side, client1 copies from server1 to itself, then copies > from itself to server2, correct? > > You have made a very good point. Generally when we setup a storage, or recommend it, we consider a fresh setup. We recommend client side afr (or any other clustering translators) because it got its own benefits like, open fds will remain intact even if the subvolume goes down. In the scenario like you described, I would say, server side afr helps a lot. But if I am setting up GlusterFS, I will rather use rsync or scp to copy the data to server2 from server1 directly, and then start afr on client node. I know GlusterFS should work fine for healing even that, but considering opening each file to heal it through GlusterFS, its the same or less effort to start with symmetric export points. Krishna, How does it handle two files without any attributes but have same data? Regards, Amar -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!
