Yes, Currently, you can have 1 master & multiple slaves, but not multiple masters sinking over each other because there are marker translators which set extended attributes & so there is a chance of that getting corrupt. Frankly for your requirements, you need to wait for the active/active configuration to come in. ;-) On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Giovanni Toraldo <gt at libersoft.it> wrote: > Hi Rahul, > > thanks for your reply. > > 2012/1/5 Rahul C S <rahul at gluster.com>: > > What I understand from the scenario you are talking about is that you > want > > to achieve active/active geo-replication which is a proposed feature > > internally & will be coming soon. :-) > > That's great to hear! > > I tried to configure a bidirectional geo-replication between 3 > different nodes and this fail after starting the first backward > geo-replication with: > > [2012-01-03 22:10:05.286315] I [gsyncd:289:main_i] <top>: syncing: > gluster://localhost:sam > ba-core-volume -> ssh://samba-ext2.local:/srv/gluster > [2012-01-03 22:10:10.127707] E [syncdutils:133:log_raise_exception] > <top>: FAIL: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/glusterfs/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/gsyncd.py", > line 105, in main > main_i() > File "/usr/lib/glusterfs/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/gsyncd.py", > line 299, in main_i > local.service_loop(*[r for r in [remote] if r]) > File "/usr/lib/glusterfs/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/resource.py", > line 401, in service_ > loop > GMaster(self, args[0]).crawl_loop() > File "/usr/lib/glusterfs/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/master.py", > line 113, in crawl_loop > self.crawl() > File "/usr/lib/glusterfs/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/master.py", > line 173, in crawl > volinfo_sys = self.get_sys_volinfo() > File "/usr/lib/glusterfs/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/master.py", > line 27, in get_sys_vol > info > raise RuntimeError("cannot work with multiple foreign masters") > RuntimeError: cannot work with multiple foreign masters > > Is this the expected error when trying to use master/master > geo-replication with GlusterFS 3.2.5? > > Thanks! > > -- > Giovanni Toraldo - LiberSoft > http://www.libersoft.it > -- Regards, Rahul C S Engineer @ Gluster. Ph: +919591407901 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120105/10614966/attachment.htm>