Re: [Gluster-devel] afr's ns-brick and posix-locks

[Amar S. Tumballi]

Hi,
 1. AFR as such doesn't need any namespace brick, but with current version
of GlusterFS, for unify namespace is the single point of failure. Hence, to
give redundancy to unify, one can use AFR.

2. posix-locks translator is used when one needs support of 'fcntl()' and
'flock()' syscalls from their GlusterFS filesystem.

Hope your doubts are clear.

Regards,
Amar

On Dec 6, 2007 7:47 PM, Chris Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:

>      Hi,
>
>      Two questions.
>
>      Am I missing something or is the AFR ns-brick a single point of
> failure.  If so is there a way around?
>
>      And when and under what conditionsd do you use the posix-locks
> xltator?
>
>      Thank you.
>
>
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