hi, Not necessarily. The first time when the file is accessed whichever brick responds fast is the one where the reads/stat etc happen. Writes/create/rm etc happen on both the bricks. Pranith. ----- Original Message ----- From: "???????? ????????? ??????????" <a.kostyrev at serverc.ru> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 8:52:11 AM Subject: local IO hello! question about IOs: I've fired up glusterfs with distributed replicated volumes like this gluster volume create test-mail replica 2 transport tcp 10.0.1.132:/mnt/ld0 10.0.1.133:/mnt/ld0 10.0.1.132:/mnt/ld1 10.0.1.133:/mnt/ld1 server1 is 10.0.1.132 server2 is 10.0.1.133 gluster volume info all Volume Name: test-mail Type: Distributed-Replicate Status: Started Number of Bricks: 2 x 2 = 4 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: 10.0.1.132:/mnt/ld0 Brick2: 10.0.1.133:/mnt/ld0 Brick3: 10.0.1.132:/mnt/ld1 Brick4: 10.0.1.133:/mnt/ld1 and mount glusterfs on earch on servers at /mnt/gfs_mail mount -t glusterfs 127.0.0.1:/vms /mnt/gluster the question: when server1 reads mail from /mnt/gfs_mail is all IO operation is LOCAL ? _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users