we do just that. we have a host entry in our F5 (basically rrdns++) That is what calls the vol file. If one of the storage hosts is down, the F5 does not return it's IP. -luis On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Harald St?rzebecher wrote: > Hi! > > 2011/4/25 Max Ivanov <ivanov.maxim at gmail.com>: >> Hi! >> native (FUSE) client fetches volume config from provided server and >> then connects to all bricks according to config. But what if that >> server is unaviable? Theoretically client can fetch volume config from >> any server, is there any way to provide multiple servers? It will make >> clients able to mount volume even if only 1 brick left aviable. > > UCARP (http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp) was mentioned sometimes as > a solution. > > Some DNS configuration might work, too - e.g. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin_DNS > > The basic idea would be to create a network endpoint that is always > available - even if there is only one brick left. > > > Harald St?rzebecher > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users Luis E. Cerezo http://www.luiscerezo.org http://twitter.com/luiscerezo http://flickr.com/photos/luiscerezo photos for sale: http://photos.luiscerezo.org Voice: 412 223 7396 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110426/07979185/attachment.htm>
