GlusterFS in contrast to other clustering solutions is a client-side clustering solution. You configure your clients to handle all the distribution, replication and and other available functionality. Client is modifying/reading/creating file and sends commands or the file itself to the storage back-ends based on your configuration file. Server-side handling is needed for task like healing if your servers have much faster interconnections than clients. 2010/2/23 Chad <ccolumbu at hotmail.com>: > Please forgive my ignorance, but I am not sure I understand about the client > vs server side replication. > > Could someone throw out a quick paragraph describing the 2 and/or a pro/con > list? > If I do client side replication, how to I access the files on the servers? > Am I relying on the clients to sync the data between the servers? > > There are times when no clients are up and the servers are "doing things" to > the file system. > > Thanks. > > ^C
