Hi all, I've been toying around with glusterfs 2.0.9 and I'm really liking it. I very much enjoy it's simple modular design. My current test setup is a unify cluster, using a afr/loadbalanced namespace. Could I duplicate files to multiple data bricks in the cluster to provide a raid5-like setup? I very much want to be able to shutdown a single machine in the cluster and still have a fully functional filesystem. I'm very happy to write the application that does the copying over the data bricks myself. Another advantage could be that I can decide on a per-file basis how many copies of a file exist in the filesystem. (Two would be a minimum for me) The real-world scenario: This would be the data filesystem for a webserver cluster setup. You can imagine images used on a homepage are requested more frequent than others. I imagine the order in which I specify the subvolumes in the unify volume needs to be different over my clients to make good use of the multiple copies over the different bricks. What problems can I expect with this setup? Have others tried a similar setup? Am I missing a GlusterFS feature that would implement what I want, in a much easier way? Thank you for your time! Some other minor remarks: * Is there a reason the AFR translator is missing in the wiki on: http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Translators ? * The wiki search does not work for small words (AFR for example) This is because MySQL full text search indexes are used, and mysql has a minimum char length. Add 'ft_min_word_len=2' to the mysql my.cnf file (in the mysqld section) To create indexes of 2 and 3 letter words too. This results in larger indexes, but I think it's worth it.
