On 06.05.2011 23:02, Vikas Gorur wrote: > > On May 6, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >> If we use the following command line: >> >> mount -t glusterfs server1:/test-volume /mnt/glusterfs >> >> Our mount will die if server1 is offline. > > The mount will not die as long as you have atleast one server up in each > replicate pair. The mount will _fail_, however, if server1 is offline at > the time of mounting. You can work-around that by setting up a DNS name > that round-robins across all server. Or you could hack up a script that > pings a server before selecting it for the mount. Thanks for this tip - DNS round robin works fine to provide mounts, even if one the servers is down. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
