thanks for the response!!! > > Its not clear what do you mean by "dedicated server". All it needs is to > have the filesystem which has enough space to hold namespace cache (which is > small compared to actual data) and which can support large number of inodes > (the whole directory structure of unify is replicated on this node with 0 > byte sized files). > ok, so namespace cache can be defined in the same server as any storage node brick ...such as: storage brick1 ----------- storage brick 2 ------------ storage brick 3 ---------- storage brick4 glusterfsd vol glustervsd vol glusterfsd vol glusterfsd vol namespace cache pls confirm. thanks again! - a. >> >> >> >> ? LINE 5: "option namespace namespace-child" >> The option specifies that namespace-child should be used as a place >> where the whole filesystem's namespace (ie, directory/file tree >> structure) is maintained. Here 'namespace-child' needs to be another >> volume which is already defined in the spec. >> 'namespace-child' is configured like another server brick, except that >> it's content is used to manage namespace. It should not be listed >> along with the other subvolumes. >> ? LINE 6: "subvolumes child1 child2 child3 child4" >> Here 'subvolumes' is an identifier for parser to tell that following >> volumes are the 'children' nodes for current volume. 'subvolumes' >> takes one or more volume names as argument. Here child1, child2, >> child3, child4 are also named as storage nodes as these are the nodes >> where actual data is storaged. >> >> ====== >> >> Could someone point me to a site that potentially diagrams a summary >> of a simple Gluster with Unify and AFR installed? >> >> I found this site: >> http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/talks/Z/GlusterFS.pdf - >> page 5 - shows the Unify stack in the client, but I still am unable to >> conceive where the metadata - single namespace information - is >> stored? >> >> I apologize if my question is quite naive, but I'm a bit confused. >> >> thanks in advanced, >> >> aspasia. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > regards, > -- > Raghavendra G > > -- A S P A S I A . . . . . . . . . . ..
