Re: What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

["KwangErn Liew" <ke.liew@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Vikas Gorur <vikas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2008/11/14 Onyx <lists@xxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
>
> I just had a problem with a disk failure. It was an ext3 partition, and
> suddenly, bc of a problem, it automatically remounted as read-only.
> It was not in a glusterfs setup yet, but it got me thinking...
> What would have happened if that partition was in an afr setup?
> I think glusterfs would hang on a write, correct?

No, AFR would not hang. The write would fail on that volume, but as long
as the write succeeds on atleast one volume, AFR reports success.

Is there N tries before write is reported to be failed on that volume? Or is it failed immediately?


KwangErn