yes. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:08 PM, a s p a s i a <aspasia.sf at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > . . . . . . . . . . .. > -- Raghavendra G -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20081204/1d73e1cb/attachment.htm
