Re: geo-replication vs replicated volumes

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On 10 June 2015 at 12:24, Gabriel Kuri <gkuri@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I need some clarification on how geo-replication (gluster => 3.5) operates, as I'm not fully understanding how the new and improved version works from the docs.

Let's assume the following scenario, three servers setup in a geo-rep cluster all separated by a WAN:

<server a> -- WAN -- <server b> -- WAN -- <server c>

Does this scenario allow for a client with the a volume mounted to write to any of the servers directly and the write then gets replicated from that server to the other servers? For example, a client has the volume mounted (via FUSE) on server C and writes a file, does that file get written to server C directly and then the file replicates (asynchronously) to server A and server B ? Or is it that the writes only occur on the "master" of that geo-rep volume? I'm trying to understand if the replication for geo-rep occurs in a master-master setup or if it's still master-slave ? What was the big change for geo-rep in 3.5 ?

glusterfs doesn't support master-master yet. In your case, one of the servers (A or B or C) should be a master and your client should write to only that volume. Other two volumes should be read-only till volume in server-A fails for some reason.

The big change in glusterfs-3.5 was the design of the geo-replication. Earlier one single node in master volume was responsible for syncing data to slave (which has lots of performance problems). So from > glusterfs-3.5, the responsibility of syncing is shared across servers of volume in master.

If it's not master-master, how does one get master-master replication working over a WAN?

AFAIK, there is no work around as of now, at least I am not aware of it

Best Regards,
Vishwanath


Thanks ...


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