I'll appreciate help with the following questions by Gart on my blog (http://goo.gl/8eKn) Thanks Joshua ---- Thanks for this accessibly straightforward series. A couple basic questions about the way gluster works: 1) If I do this exercise -exactly- as you have done, but one of the instances EBS volume already has files on it, what happens? Will it immediately replicate to the other? Will the gluster daemon lazily replicate? Do I have to call 'rebalance' to trigger the replication? 2) Must I perform all file access through the client mount in order to have integrity? Or can I read and write to the directories that are pointed to by the volume. 3) One of the finest aspects of AWS is AMI creation. Can I create an AMI based on these servers as a way to back up both the server state and the file volumes? ----
