On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I couldnt find anything related to this with a quick search. > > Lets take a case where we have 3 data servers, so we do AFR using > unify. For unify we specify a namespace volume that exists on lets say > server1. > > Ok so what happens when server1 goes down, now there is no namespace. > What are the implications and is there a common solution to avoid > this? http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Aggregating_Three_Storage_Servers_with_Unify Ok so I started to attempt to create a 3 server 2 client setup. I thought I would use 3 servers and i would only want 2 copies of files. I thought to do this you needed afr + unify. However, AFR uses the number of servers as the number of copies, so even using 3 servers I dont see a reason to use unify? Wont it just send every write to all 3 servers anyway? So what is unify doing in the example? Is that just a bad example that I am trying to follow?
