Sorry, with config: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Nathan Stratton wrote: > I have 6 boxes with a client config (see below) across 6 boxes. I am using > distribute across 3 replicate pairs. Since I am running xen I need to > disable-direct-io and that slows things down quite a bit. My thought was to > move the replicate / distribute to the backend server config so that self > heal can happen on faster backend rather then frontend client with > disable-direct-io. > > Does this make sense? I would think that it would speed up self-heal > operations quite a bit. > > Also, is it possible to use both? Could you replicate / distribute on the > server side AND on the client side using the same raw volumes? volume brick0 type protocol/client option transport-type ib-verbs/client option remote-host 172.16.0.200 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume mirror0 type protocol/client option transport-type ib-verbs/client option remote-host 172.16.0.201 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume brick1 type protocol/client option transport-type ib-verbs/client option remote-host 172.16.0.202 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume mirror1 type protocol/client option transport-type ib-verbs/client option remote-host 172.16.0.203 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume brick2 type protocol/client option transport-type ib-verbs/client option remote-host 172.16.0.204 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume mirror2 type protocol/client option transport-type ib-verbs/client option remote-host 172.16.0.205 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume block0 type cluster/replicate subvolumes brick0 mirror0 end-volume volume block1 type cluster/replicate subvolumes brick1 mirror1 end-volume volume block2 type cluster/replicate subvolumes brick2 mirror2 end-volume volume unify type cluster/distribute subvolumes block0 block1 block2 end-volume ><> Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
