I am not aware of a mechanism where you can force a read from only one brick, 
but write to both, short of having reads done out of a totally separate 
directory structure.

Someone can correct me if this is wrong, but that is how my replica 
configuration behaves w/ 3.2.5.

David



On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:24 AM, François Legal wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>  
> This is my first post to the list.
> 
>  
> I have 2 distant sites linked through a 10MBits MPLS.
> 
> To improve user experience, we would like to setup a replicated glusterfs on 
> the 2 sites, such that a user on site A would access the files from site A 
> replicated server, and a user on site B would access the files from site B 
> replicated server.
> 
> So I was thinking of a dual server setup, each being client and server for 
> its site, so that read access to files would be fast, and write access would 
> be as fast as MPLS allows it to be.
> 
> The files would then be shared using samba to the users.
> 
>  
> In this situation, I don't know if I should prefer client side AFR or server 
> side AFR (I guess server side AFR would make the files on both sites 
> unavailable if MPLS fails).
> 
>  
> Anyway, I gave a test drive on this, and seem to be having locking issues 
> (users on both side can modify the same file without anything preventing 
> this).
> 
>  
> Can anybody comment on this.
> 
>  
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>  
> François
> 
>  
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