Hello, first of all I would like to thank the gluster developers for the great job they are doing. I hope someone can give me more details about how replicate copies of the same file in a distributed/replicated gluster volumes are accessed by clients. My specific question is: if I have a distributed/replicated volume and a gluster native client needs to read a file, which server will be chosen ? Let's say I have a 2-nodes cluster running the following gluster configuration: --- Volume Name: myvolume Type: Replicate Status: Started Number of Bricks: 2 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: host1:/brick Brick2: host2:/brick --- host1 and host2 are also gluster native clients, mounting "myvolume" in /gluster e.g. [root at host1 ~]# mount | egrep "brick|gluster" /dev/sda1 on /brick type ext3 (rw) glusterfs#host1:/myvolume on /gluster type fuse (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=131072) [root at host2 ~]# mount | egrep "brick|gluster" /dev/sda1 on /brick type ext3 (rw) glusterfs#host2:/myvolume on /gluster type fuse (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=131072) If host1 needs to read the file /gluster/myfile will it use the local copy from host1:/brick or the other copy from host2:/brick over the network ? Is there a way to force the client to read the local copy ? Cheers, Rosario
