On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:00:42PM +0530, Vikas Gorur wrote: > 2008/10/22 Arend-Jan Wijtzes <ajwytzes at wise-guys.nl>: > > > Is this behaviour required for correct operation? Does this mean that all > > clients are always reading from the same availble first node? > > Wouldn't the load be better distributed if you take a random or > > 'round robin' node to read from (which would seem trivial to implement)? > > That is correct. Gowda gave you a simplified view of the operation. > The AFR translator supports a 'read-subvolume' option, which lets you > specify the node from where all the reads should be done. If you don't > specify the option, reads will be balanced in a nearly round-robin > fashion among all alive nodes. Ah yes, I see from the documentation that you read the same file from the same volume, which is probably the result of some hashing approach which is even nicer. Sorry I jumped the gun. -- Arend-Jan Wijtzes -- Wiseguys -- www.wise-guys.nl
