Hi Hareem. Please do a search on the mailing list using the term "ucarp", and that will show you how some people have implemented virtual IP addresses and the ucarp program to protect against the scenario that you have just described. I do this on my own setup, and it works just fine. The procedures for failing out a bad server node and then reintegrating it are documented in the Administrators guide. Thanks, James Burnash, Unix Engineering -----Original Message----- From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Hareem Haque Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 4:53 PM To: gluster-users at gluster.org Subject: Question regarding redundancy on Glusterfs 3.1 Hello I am a bit confused. I setup glustefs on a 4 node cluster setting up distribute replication. On the client machine i install the glustefs client and setup the mount. The mount point connects to the first server on the trusted storage pool. So if this first server in the storage pool dies. How would the client glustefs failover to another node. And how best to bring the cluster back to its 4 node strength. Your help is greatly appreciated. Best Regards Hareem. Haque DISCLAIMER: This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please immediately notify me and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. NOTICE REGARDING PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY Knight Capital Group may, at its discretion, monitor and review the content of all e-mail communications. http://www.knight.com
