Re: [Gluster-devel] I have some general questions...

[Krishna Srinivas]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:55 PM, B P <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, I have some general question abbout glusterfs
>
>  1. Does glusterfs have load-balancing capabilities?

In what context?

>
>  2. Wich translators provide a parallel reading and parallel writing?
>  Other words, do I have to use unify translator to achive paralell I/O 
> to/from multiple disks, or I can achive that only by using AFR (if that is 
> the case, then what it is the use of unify for)?
>

I feel you have not got the correct picture of using translators. AFR
is used for
replication of files for redundancy. Unify is used to distribute the files among
the subvolumes.

>  3. Is the FUSE real necessary and what are the benefits of using FUSE on 
> client side?

Glusterfs client will need fuse, absolutely needed.

Krishna

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