On 09/11/2013 10:09 AM, Kal Black wrote: > Hello, > I asked this question some days ago but did not get any answer so far so > I am posting it again. > > Can someone explain how Gluster native client reads from a Gluster > replicated volume? > > 1. Is there a mechanism that would spread requests, form a single > client, among all bricks/servers, taking part in a replica volume? A gluster native client sends read requests to every replica in the volume. It reads from the first server to respond. Other responses are discarded. The client only reads from a single server. > > 2. Would the native client take a decision where (brick/server) to fetch > a file from based on some criteria or it will be bound to a give > brick/server all the time? > > 3. Is a file being downloaded from just one of the gluster servers? > > I did some tests, trying to measure network traffic between gluster > servers and a client using "iptraf" and "gluster volume status Volname > client", which gave confusing results so I would like someone to clear > this out for me if possible. > > Thank you! > Kal > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Kaleb
