On 09/11/2013 10:58 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > On 09/11/2013 10:41 AM, Kal Black wrote: > >> >> I used iptraf on the gluster servers and gluster client, and the results >> showed that the client box is getting very close to double the total >> size of the files being requested (once from each gluster server) > > All the servers send a reply. If the files are small I'm not surprised > that the traffic is double for a replica 2 volume (triple for a replica > 3 volume). > > The clients are going to ignore responses from all but one server. > I've been corrected. ;-) The client sends a LOOKUP to all bricks. All servers will respond. The first response the client gets dictates which server it will send subsequent STAT, READ, etc., calls to. -- Kaleb
