This is what I found contray to what I said. I thought I read it otherwise somewhere else. Documentation still lacks good information. http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/20081021/000496.html On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com> wrote: > My understanding is that it will issue 2 read requests in parallel and > whichever returns the response first will be used. > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Rosario Esposito <resposit at na.infn.it> wrote: >> >> This is a repost, I hope gluster developers can answer this question: >> >> 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 >> >
