Does anyone know how soon WAN functionality will be available? 2011/3/10 Harald St?rzebecher <haralds at cs.tu-berlin.de>: > 2011/3/10 Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com>: >> How to setup gluster for WAN/Data Center replication? Are there others >> using it this way? > > AFAIK, GlusterFS performance depends mostly on network latency -> > Ethernet vs. Infiniband > The high latency of a WAN connection will make every (uncached) file > or metadata access very slow, compared to a local network. > >> Also, how to make the writes asynchronuous for data center replication? >> >> We have a requirement to replicate data to other data center as well. > > If you want to DIY: > > http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/ > http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ > > might be an option... > > Disclaimer: I have not tried a setup like that yet, I don't know if it > would work with two GlusterFS-mountpoints. > > > regards, > > Harald St?rzebecher >
