Re: [Gluster-devel] GlusterFS AFR mirror exclusions

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:14:30AM +0530, Krishna Srinivas wrote:
> Hi Gerry,
> 
> In the next release this can be done. i.e you can say
> 
> option replicate /usr/src/linux/*:1,/usr/src/*:2,*:3
> i.e we can specify full path.
> So all the files under the directory /usr/src/linux will be replicated
> only once.
> All the files under /usr/src except for the ones in "linux" will be
> replicated twice.
> Rest of the files will be replicated thrice.

Just to clarify: the number of replicas depends on the order of the
patterns listed, first match being used?

Nice feature :-) What actually was the timeline for the next release? :-)

Cheers
 Steffen

BTW, is it just me feeling that GlusterFS is approaching ZFS in some way?

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