Re: Lightweight read

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On April 25, 2020 9:00:30 AM GMT+03:00, David Cunningham <dcunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi Ravi,
>
>Thank you for the reply, and yes they are replica volumes. Is it
>possible
>to improve performance by the client only accessing its configured
>server
>for reads, or would the difference be negligible?
>
>
>On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 18:46, Ravishankar N <ravishankar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 24/04/20 11:42 am, David Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My understanding is that GlusterFS checks with all nodes when
>performing a
>> read. Is it possible to just get the data from the node directly
>being
>> accessed (in our case using the GlusterFS client), without consulting
>with
>> the other nodes?
>>
>> Our application requires the GFS file to be available, but it's
>actually
>> not critical if we end up with an old version of the file in the case
>of a
>> server down or net-split etc. Significantly improved read performance
>would
>> be desirable instead.
>>
>> I assume you are talking about replica volumes, in which case the
>read
>> does happen from only one of the replica bricks. The client only
>sends
>> lookups to all the bricks to figure out which are the good copies.
>Post
>> that, the reads themselves are served from only one of the good
>copies.
>>
>> -Ravi
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
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Hey David,
There  is a  cluster.choose-local  (I  think  it was 'cluster , but I  could be wrong) option that allows a node  to read  locally - in my case I'm using it cause my network is slower than my NVMe so reads over the network are slow.

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov
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