cluster/ha solves this problem as of now.. it is build to provide High Availability between two servers/interfaces etc. http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/AFR_single_process is the setup I am referring, where machine{1,2,} are servers, and all others are clients. Regards, Amar 2008/12/19 Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com> > thanks, looks good. > > I have one thought, that might be worthy of discussion: > > Personally I prefer server side AFR, because I don't want a > mis-configured client to cause problems with replication. > However, it seems the current only way to get high-availability to > the client is for the client to run AFR so that if one server fails > you still have access. > > so, having afr onthe servers AND the clients seems like it might just > add weird overhead? would it even work well at all? > > and so I'm thinking, server side AFR is better and so there might be > nice to have a multi-server translator or something where you can > specify multiple servers and an access policy (like with unify-- rr, > lru, etc.) to address the availability issue.?? > > > > > At 10:47 PM 12/17/2008, you wrote: > >2008/12/18 Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com>: > > > I've unpacked the rc4 distribution from > > > http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/1.4/ , there is no > afr.pdf in > > > the doc folder > > > >Thanks for spotting. I had forgot to include it in the distribution > >tarball. I've made the necessary changes and it will go out with > >future releases. Until then please get it from either the repository > >or > > > >http://gnu.zresearch.com/~vikas/afr.pdf<http://gnu.zresearch.com/%7Evikas/afr.pdf> > > > >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! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20081219/690a48c5/attachment.htm
