<p dir="ltr">Yeah it does make sense :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks a lot Paul! </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2014 11:27 PM, "Paul Cuzner" <<a href="mailto:pcuzner@redhat.com">pcuzner@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:lucida console,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>Hi Elias,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Online replica's will be used to satisfy client requests. You'll typically see a delay when accessing files, while the cluster determines that the node/brick is dead, and then access resumes using the remaining brick(s).<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>gluster tracks updates against the online replica, such that when the other brick returns self heal can get to work and catch up with the changes on the other brick.<br></div><div><br></div><div>
Does that make sense?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div><br></div><div>PC<br></div><div><br></div><hr><blockquote style="padding-left:5px;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;margin-left:5px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;border-left:2px solid #1010ff">
<b>From: </b>"Elías David" <<a href="mailto:elias.moreno.tec@gmail.com" target="_blank">elias.moreno.tec@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"gluster-users" <<a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" target="_blank">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, 16 February, 2014 12:26:09 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Gluster-users] Is replica data usable by clients?<br><div><br></div><p dir="ltr">Suppose you have a vol made up of 4 bricks in a replica 2 set, so brick 2 is a replica of brick 1 and brick 4 is a replica of brick 3.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now if brick 1 is unavailable for whatever reason, are clients able to use the data directly stored on the replica? Or the data in a replica brick is just used to heal/rebalance/recreate bricks?</p>
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