Eros Candelaresi wrote: > 4. after a server failure redundancy should automatically be recreated > (ie. create new copies of all files that only exist once after the crash) This is done by replicate. When a server comes back up the data is "self-healed", ensuring the copies are in sync. > 5. just throw in new hardware, connect it with the cluster and let the > filesystem take care of filling it with data This is possible by adding subvolumes to distribute. Currently this requires a remount on all clients. With the 3.1 release you'll be able to add servers without a remount. Vikas
