Daniel Maher wrote: > Antoine Nguyen wrote: > >> I have the following architecture : a cluster with 4 nodes configured >> to do server-side AFR. I'm not using the UNIFY translator. There is a >> dedicated network for replication. This is working pretty well. In >> order to test this setup, a client machine access nodes randomly by a >> round robin DNS address. >> >> This model is inspired by examples I've seen on the official wiki. On >> those examples, the AFR volume on each node is "under" a UNIFY >> volume. When I start glusterfsd, a message appeared, saying : >> "WARNING: You have defined only one "subvolumes" for unify volume. It >> may not be the desired config, review your volume spec file. If this >> is how you are testing it, you may hit some performance penalty". >> >> This message confirms what I'm thinking : it seems that the unify >> volume is useless in this kind of configuration. Is there a (good) >> reason in defining a unify volume ? > > In this _particular_ scenario there is no obvious reason to be using > the Unify translator. In fact, when i set up my first Gluster config > in this fashion, i too used the Unify translator erroneously - it > caused nothing but problems until i got rid of it. :P > > Ok, this was what I supposed, thank you for the confirmation :-) Do you have any idea about the other question ?
