As of now, NSR makes use of etcd (which uses the RAFT distributed consensus protocol) to maintain information (term number, current leader) for the nodes in a replica group rather than using it in the data replication plane.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Prashanth Pai <p...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There is already an ongoing effort to use RAFT for synchronous > replication. You can find the repo here: > > http://review.gluster.org/#/q/project:glusterfs-nsr,n,z > https://forge.gluster.org/new-style-replication > > Regards, > -Prashanth Pai > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan" <sharuzza...@gmail.com> > To: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@nongnu.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:53:45 PM > Subject: [Gluster-devel] raft consensus algorithm and glusterfs > > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if you all have heard about Raft Consensus Algorithm, but > from the paper, video, and slides on the Internet, I think that this > algorithm can help to solve a lot of distributed cases in GlusterFS. > > For example, right now the initial mounting of the filesystem can use any > nodes IP, and later when the application needs to read or write the data, > it will randomly picked from the peer list > > With Raft, one of the node will act as a master, after successful election > among the peers. With one master in place, the read/write can directly goes > to the master, which will replicate to other follower, according to the > distribution requirement (distribute, replicate, stripe, > distribute-replicate, etc) > > I also believe that with this method (having a master), the lock issue > happen with samba could be reduced or resolved. > > For more information, please visit > http://raftconsensus.github.io/ > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ3zDzDnrw > > and the paper > http://ramcloud.stanford.edu/raft.pdf > > Thanks. > > > -- > Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
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