I think it would help if we had a list of all the different use cases that someone might use glusterfs, then build wiki howtos based off that. I will try to think of all I can here No clustering translators *) Single server. (n) client machines. (NFS clone) AFR - unify / AFR + unify / data redundancy / mirroring *) Two servers. Replicate files on both machines *) Three servers. Replicate files on all three machines *) Three servers. Replicate (n) copies between all three machines. Requires unify *) (n) servers. Replicate (n) copies between all (n) machines. Requires unify Unify / "raid" / no data redundancy *) Two servers. Create one big drive using free space on both machines *) Three servers. Create one big drive using free space on both machines *) (n) servers. Create one big drive using free space on all machines *Other I have only looked into mirroring my data, with 2-3 or so servers so Im not sure what other people are / might use that isnt mentioned above.
