Rainer, Please have a look at the configuration below. This configuration is only for experimental purposes. What you should be interested in are the options inside the afr volumes. You'll need to split this 2 level graph into different vol files as well -- afrABCD on the client, afrAB and afrCD in the distributor, posixA through posixD one per machine (with protocol translators slipped in appropriately). Do use write-behind at both the client and distributor levels, otherwise I'm figuring you will see a lot of call bails during the write because of the boosted expense of each write at the distributor level (from the client's p.o.v). We're really interested to know how well/bad this configuration works when you actually have 40x50 instead of 2x2 copies :-) --snip-- volume posixA type storage/posix option directory /tmp/posixA end-volume volume posixB type storage/posix option directory /tmp/posixB end-volume volume posixC type storage/posix option directory /tmp/posixC end-volume volume posixD type storage/posix option directory /tmp/posixD end-volume volume afrAB type cluster/afr option data-self-heal off option metadata-self-heal off option entry-self-heal off option data-change-log off option metadata-change-log off option entry-change-log off option data-lock-server-count 0 option metadata-lock-server-count 0 option entry-lock-server-count 0 subvolumes posixA posixB end-volume volume afrCD type cluster/afr option data-self-heal off option metadata-self-heal off option entry-self-heal off option data-change-log off option metadata-change-log off option entry-change-log off option data-lock-server-count 0 option metadata-lock-server-count 0 option entry-lock-server-count 0 subvolumes posixC posixD end-volume volume afrABCD type cluster/afr option data-self-heal off option metadata-self-heal off option entry-self-heal off option data-change-log off option metadata-change-log off option entry-change-log off option data-lock-server-count 0 option metadata-lock-server-count 0 option entry-lock-server-count 0 subvolumes afrAB afrCD end-volume --snip-- Avati
