> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Jeffry Molanus > > <jeffry.molanus at gmail.com>wrote: > > 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? > > HA is useful when you have multiple network interconnect to the server and > you want glusterfs to continue working seemlessly, then you would use HA. > HA fails over to secondary interconnect, if primary fails. I think the name of "HA" is mismatch. For replication is also "HA" when one of storage node went down. HA of gluster is more like bonding of multiple network interface?and I think it is no need for glusterfs, because we can do bonding!! > > > > 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
