On 10/24/2011 11:11 AM, Venky Shankar wrote: > > On 10/24/2011 02:16 PM, Robert Krig wrote: >> I've been reading the documentation, but I'm a bit stumped as to how to >> setup geo-replication with glusterfs. >> >> The documentation mentions that you use an existing glusterfs volume to >> start geo replication. But what kind of volume? Do you just create a >> standard replicated volume with a replica count of 1? > > Geo-rep only needs the volume name. You can create volume of any type > (plain distribute, replicate, distribute-replicate etc...) and use it > as the master volume for geo-replication. Suppose you have a > distribute-replicate volume called 'vol-dr' then you start geo-rep by: > > # gluster volume geo-replication vol-dr <slave> start > So if I want to just create a simple 2 server master>slave setup, what would be the best choice for the initial Gluster volume? Replicated with a single node?
