> > The only way I see to ensure data integrity is to have some arbiter vet > > all writes. You can try to make that arbiter redundant, but good luck > > making it actually distributed. > > > > I've seen the distributed arbiter done in proprietary software, so it > must be possible. The design is pretty clear to me, but I have no idea > where to start integrating the idea into glusterfs, though gluster's the > closest thing to what I need that I've seen in open source. > Can you give some details/links? We would be interested to learn about it. avati