Hi, is there any chance someone can help with this ? Thanks! Il 04/03/2011 16:27, Rosario Esposito ha scritto: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
