Melvin, HA is better than heartbeat as it makes sure that the failover is smooth on the open file descriptors taking care of the problems you mentioned. Give it a try and let us know if something does not work. Krishna On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Melvin Wong <melvin.wong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Raghavendra, > > Tks for the quick reply. Another question is do you know if Heatbeat is > better choice or HA translator for failover. When we use HA translator, what > will happen to the open files or current file transfer during a failover? > Will the clients clashes while trying to connect to the slave server? > > Thank you. > > > > melvin > > > > From: Raghavendra G [mailto:raghavendra.hg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:42 AM > To: Melvin Wong > Cc: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: 1.4.0 and HA Translator > > > > Hi Melvin, > I meant HA is also designed to help server side afr setups you've explained. > Sorry for the typo. > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Raghavendra G <raghavendra.hg@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hi Melvin, > > Yes, Heart beat is also designed to help server side afr setups you've > explained. > > 2008/12/23 Melvin Wong <melvin.wong@xxxxxxxxx> > > Hi, > > I will like to know is there a need to upgrade my current setup from > glusterfs-1.3.11 to 1.4.0rc6. What major bug fixes are there in 1.4 since > 1.3.11? Also, currently my setup consist of 2 glusterfs servers mirroring > each other with AFR. One of the server is set as master where all the > clients are connected to it. We maintain HA by using Heartbeat on the 2 > servers. Once the master server fails, heartbeat will failover to the slave > server. However, occasionally the clients might encounter problems > connecting during the failover or the 2 servers no longer able to replicate > well. Could HA translator in 1.4 be of help to replace the Heartbeat? Will > it be more stable than Heartbeat during a failover? > > > > melvin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > > -- > Raghavendra G > > > -- > Raghavendra G > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > >
