oops .... forgot to CC gluster-devel... On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Krishna Srinivas <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mickey Mazarick > <mic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ultimately we want to use it permanently. We are looking for a system that >> lets our infiniband system fail over to gigabit ethernet. >> For us, >> subvolume one = server1 over ibverbs subvolume two = server1 over tcp >> >> How does it currently handle failure? Will it attempt to connect to one then >> fail over to two on every read? After a number of failures will it always >> use 2? > > HA will maintain the state of an "operation", if it fails on one > subvol because of connection failure, it tries the operaion on the > next subvol, application issuing the system call like read/write will > not see the connection loss. > >> >> Thanks! >> >> Krishna Srinivas wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mickey, >>> >>> config is simple, you give a list of subvolumes list: >>> volume ha1 >>> type cluster/ha >>> subvolumes one two >>> end-volume >>> >>> Do you just want to test it or you are planning on a setup which needs >>> it? (if so can you give me the setup details?, I am just curious) >>> >>> The code is in the TLA, but "locking" code flow needs some changes. >>> You can try it out though. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Krishna >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Mickey Mazarick >>> <mic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Can someone give me a quick example of how the ha xlator works? I for >>>> one >>>> want to test it. :-) >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gluster-devel mailing list >>>> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- >> >
