On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 21:34 +0530, Basavanagowda Kanur wrote: > Davide, > Replies inline. > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Davide D'Amico > <davide.damico at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I was looking for a scalable-ha nfs storage solution and > glusterfs seems to be > the only out there :-) > > I was reading the documentation and I cannot find the > difference > between "Replicate > Translator" and "HA Translator": the latest seems to be a > particular case of the > first one when I have only two bricks. Is it right? > Replicate translator provides replication feature, whereas HA (High > Availability) translator provides high availability, HA does not do > any replication. > > Care to explain how it does work then? How can a file be HA if the server that went down is not replicated? > I intend to create a scalable nfs cluster, so I can add > storage nodes > to increase > storage size: have I to use unify on top of AFR translator > (i.e. unify > on a replicated > volume?). > you can use 'distribute' (formerly DHT) translator over AFR. > > > > I've read that glusterfs has problems with self-healing and > opened > files: is it true? > > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > d. > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > -- > Gowda > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
