<html><body><div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><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 id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Elías David" <elias.moreno.tec@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org><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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