2008/11/10 Harald St?rzebecher <haralds at cs.tu-berlin.de>: > > Beware that the network bandwidth might get divided between the > connections to the servers. 8-) > > An extreme example: > A client machine has one gigE connection to the network and uses > client side AFR to replicate the data to 5 servers. This is a valid point. If you are concerned about the network being the bottleneck, you can configure AFR on the server side and use a separate gigE network for the replication. Vikas -- Engineer - Z Research http://gluster.com/