On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:25:49PM +0300, Sergei wrote: > Hello. > > I'm wondering, how is the actual mirroring done in Gluster? Is client > responsible for creating two copies of data? If yes, does it perform two > writes in parallel (to two bricks) or in sequential manner? This is correct, the mirroring (we call it "replication") is done on the client-side. One write by an application/user will result in multiple parallel writes to the bricks. > Or, maybe, it is server's responsibility - to make a copy from each write > request? No, it is not. In case of mounting a Gluster volume over NFS, the NFS-server acts as a GlusterFS-client. Here, the NFS-server is responsible for the replication (not the NFS-client). Niels _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
