Thank you all for collaborate, recalled some of the things that AFR had overlooked. Att Mario Bonilla >>> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Prueba los prototipos de los ?ltimos en MSN Motor http://motor.es.msn.com/
