Hi guys:
Is there a way to "guess" which node / brick contains a file in glusterfs, without using xattrs ?
We need programmatic access to optimize locality, and currently are doing this with xattrs, however, we'd like to simply get the gluster meta data in a platform neutral way.
One very silly solutoin might be:
ssh into each server, and account time to read 50KB from the file, and select the fasted read time as the "local" server.
But of course, this would be a really bad hack :) ^^