On 06.05.2011 22:57, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Assuming we have a distributed replica of two gluster servers: > > server1-server2 > > > And several clients (client1, client2, ..., clientN). > > If we use the following command line: > > mount -t glusterfs server1:/test-volume /mnt/glusterfs > > Our mount will die if server1 is offline. I was mistaken - I see it's not the case, which is good. Still, what /etc/fstab entry should the clients use in order to be able to mount glusterfs, if one of the servers (the one specified in /etc/fstab) dies? > Similar, if we use this entry in /etc/fstab: > > server1:/test-volume /mnt/glusterfs glusterfs defaults,_netdev 0 0 > > If server1 is offline, but server2 is online, the client will not be > able to access the data. > > > Could anyone shed some light on achieving high availability with glusterfs? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
