Oops, sorry for this confusion.. Hadn't seen properly that you needed a specific case of AFR over AFR only.. for you the below mail doesn't hold good. 2008/12/15 Amar S. Tumballi <amar at zresearch.com> > Hi Rainer, > Actually, you need to cascade AFR volumes with Hash or Unify. > > > http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS#Volume_file_.28volfile.29_Examples > http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Mixing_DHT_and_AFR > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Amar > > 2008/12/15 Rainer Schwemmer <rainer.schwemmer at cern.ch> > > Hi Vikas, >> >> Thanks for the quick answer. >> >> Yeah, I figured it would be slow. That's why im trying to cascade it >> instead of having 2000 subvolumes directly attached to the top node :) >> >> Anyway, I'll have a go at the 1.4.0.rc2 version in the meantime and let >> you know if it also crashes. >> >> Cheers, >> Rainer >> >> >> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 21:24 +0530, Vikas Gorur wrote: >> > Rainer, >> > >> > Thank you for your interest in GlusterFS. >> > >> > I do not know of any user who's had an AFR configuration with 40-50 >> > subvolumes, but there is no reason it shouldn't work. The write >> > performance will obviously be quite low, but in your case since you >> > will not be making heavy/daily use of it (the only writes will be when >> > you make a new release, if I understand correctly), that shouldn't be >> > an issue. >> > >> > The version of GlusterFS you're using (1.3.12) is rather old now. We >> > have a new release 1.4.0 in the final stages of testing. We haven't >> > yet completely tested the AFR-over-AFR setup yet. >> > >> > You could either wait a few days (less than a week) for us to make the >> > RC1 release with AFR-over-AFR tested or grab the TLA repository >> > version and give it a try. >> > >> > Vikas >> > -- >> > Engineer - Z Research >> > http://gluster.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >> > > > -- > Amar Tumballi > Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker > [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] > http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage! > -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20081215/eb04e3ae/attachment.htm
