Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > In the User Guide: > http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/User_Guide#Replicate > > "The next release of GlusterFS will add the following features: > Both are already in 3.0.0 > *Ability to specify the sub-volume from which read operations are to > be done (this will help users who have one of the sub-volumes as a > local storage volume). > This can be done by setting the option "read-subvolume" for replicate. Its value should be the name of the subvolume you want to be used for reads. > *Allow scheduling of read operations amongst the sub-volumes in a > round-robin fashion." > In the absence of the read-subvolume option, each file gets its read-subvolume defined in a round-robin fashion, so that provides a measure of load balancing. Vikas -- Engineer - Gluster, Inc.
