Craig - You can read from the back-end, but yes, we can't guarantee the timeliness or consistency of that data. Most users limit that access to backups, non-critical maintenance tasks. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster From: "Craig Box" <craig.box at gmail.com> To: "Craig Carl" <craig at gluster.com> Cc: "Joshua Saayman" <joshua at saayman.me>, gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 7:25:33 AM Subject: Re: GlusterFS 3.1 on Amazon EC2 Questions Hi Craig, 2. You can read from the back end, all writes should go through the Gluster mount point. This contradicts what I have read in the past. If a file is out of date on the current node, you won't get the updated version, so you are always supposed to read from the mount point. Right? Craig
