Bryan,
Each server should be able to survive the failure after what's called the "ping-timeout" has expired (usually takes 30 - 45 seconds after a failure, in total). Can you post your configs? Mine are like this, which are working in a replicate set up very similar to yours (or were, I just upgraded to 3.04 and have not re-tested failover yet).
Client vol file:
#### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume
volume master1
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp
option remote-host 192.168.1.91
option transport.socket.nodelay on
option transport.remote-port 3399
option remote-subvolume threads2
end-volume
volume master2
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp
option remote-host 192.168.1.92
option transport.socket.nodelay on
option transport.remote-port 3399
option remote-subvolume threads2
end-volume
### Add replication mirror
volume mirror1
type cluster/replicate
option read-subvolume master1
subvolumes master1 master2
end-volume
Server:
volume db
type storage/posix
option directory /cluster/shadow/db
end-volume
volume locks2
type features/locks
subvolumes db
end-volume
volume threads2
type performance/io-threads
option thread-count 8
subvolumes locks2
end-volume
volume server-tcp
type protocol/server
option transport-type tcp
option auth.addr.threads2.allow 192.168.1.*
option transport.socket.listen-port 3399
option transport.socket.nodelay on
subvolumes threads2
end-volume
Chris
----- "Bryan McGuire" <bmcguire at newnet66.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to use the replication ability of GulsterFS as a storage for
>
> our mail servers and have the following.
>
> Two CentOS boxes - Gluster 3.0.4 installed on both. Each box is a
> server and a client so we can load balance the email traffic between
>
> the two servers.
>
> Everything works fine except when one server goes down. The other
> seems to loose connectivity to the shared storage. I do an ls /mnt/
> mail and it just hangs and never responds.
>
> Is this by design or am I missing something?
>
> Bryan McGuire
>
>
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