OK cool. Glad to hear that it works like I thought initially. But what does "connected" mean ? Can GlusterFS really be disconnected ? I guess you are talking about snippets in client/server configs. Could you elaborate a little on the difference of connected vs disconnected to open my eyes a little ? Kindly //Marcus On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Krishna Srinivas <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did not intend to mean that you were criticizing (in case it sounded > like it) :-) > (Users have right to criticize, it is a good way to make the product > better) > As Gordon said in his reply, only one byte is written to AFR's > subvols, the entire > file is not replicated. > > Krishna > > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Marcus Herou <marcus.herou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > I didn't mean to criticize GlusterFS at all, just taking Daniel's word > how > > GlusterFS works. I'm quite a noob at GlusterFS in particular and large > > storage solutions in general. > > > > If it is true that the files will be pushed back and forth by just > updating > > one byte in them it will be an issue however if that's not the case then > I > > can carry on with my first intent which is to use GlusterFS for storing > and > > accessing indexed data. > > > > > > > > Kindly > > > > //Marcus > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Maher <dma+gluster@xxxxxxxxx<dma%2Bgluster@xxxxxxxxx>> > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:37:40 +0530 "Krishna Srinivas" > >> <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Do you plan to do any AFR (automatic file replication) ? If so, > >> > >> consider that even a one-byte change to your "big index files" will > >> > >> cause the /entire/ file to be AFR'd between all participating > >> > >> nodes. > >> > > >> > Marcus, what do you mean by this? > >> > > >> > Krishna > >> > >> You've mis-attributed the quote, Krishna. What i meant was exactly > >> what i said : if you have a 5GB file on an AFR cluster, and a client > >> makes a one-byte change to that file, then the entire 5GB file is > >> re-copied to all members of the AFR cluster. > >> > >> At least, that's my understanding of the situation - please correct me > >> if i'm wrong. :) > >> > >> -- > >> Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net> > > > > > > > > -- > > Marcus Herou CTO and co-founder Tailsweep AB > > +46702561312 > > marcus.herou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.tailsweep.com/ > > http://blogg.tailsweep.com/ > -- Marcus Herou CTO and co-founder Tailsweep AB +46702561312 marcus.herou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.tailsweep.com/ http://blogg.tailsweep.com/
