At 04:51 AM 8/14/2008, Rob S wrote: >On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Krishna Srinivas ><krishna at zresearch.com> wrote: > >>> My question is: Should I run 2 gluster servers, and several gluster > >>>clients, > > > > Yes that would work nicely. > > > >> or could I make each machine a gluster server, and sync using > >>>AFR? > > > > Running server on every client will mean that > > you will have as many copies as the number of clients. > > > > Krishna > > > >Keith, Krishna - thanks for your answers. I think I've worked it out, >and wonder if you can confirm my understanding of gluster: > >Gluster uses servers and clients. A client can access a gluster >resource without requiring the use of any local disk space - >effectively mounting the remote server locally. A gluster server >actually holds the files. You can have any number of servers and or >clients. To achieve ultimate read performance, and where disk space >isn't a constraint, you could run gluster server on every machine, and >configure it to read locally. This would mean that for 1GB of data, >you'd need 1GB of storage available on every single machine. > >Is this right, or have I misunderstood? that's right. >Thanks, > > >Rob
