<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">we do just that. we have a host entry in our F5 (basically rrdns++) That is what calls the vol file. If one of the storage hosts is down, the F5 does not return it's IP.<div><br></div><div>-luis</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Harald Stürzebecher wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi!<br><br>2011/4/25 Max Ivanov <<a href="mailto:ivanov.maxim@gmail.com">ivanov.maxim@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">native (FUSE) client fetches volume config from provided server and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">then connects to all bricks according to config. But what if that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">server is unaviable? Theoretically client can fetch volume config from<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">any server, is there any way to provide multiple servers? It will make<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">clients able to mount volume even if only 1 brick left aviable.<br></blockquote><br>UCARP (<a href="http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp">http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp</a>) was mentioned sometimes as<br>a solution.<br><br>Some DNS configuration might work, too - e.g.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin_DNS">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin_DNS</a><br><br>The basic idea would be to create a network endpoint that is always<br>available - even if there is only one brick left.<br><br><br>Harald Stürzebecher<br>_______________________________________________<br>Gluster-users mailing list<br>Gluster-users@gluster.org<br>http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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