On 10/22/2012 07:37 AM, Joe Julian wrote: >> The native Gluster client tends to be really @#$@#$@# stupid. It'll >> send reads to Singapore while you're in Virginia (and there are >> bricks 0.2ms away), > False. The client will read from the first-to-respond. Yes, if > Singapore is responding faster than Virginia you might want to figure > out why Virginia is so overloaded that it's taking more than 200ms to > respond, but really that shouldn't be the case. I should also say, though, that there's lots of good reasons for not doing this. Replicate isn't designed for high latency connections. That's why geo-replication was added.