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Subject:    [Gluster-devel] I have some general questions...
From:       krishna () zresearch ! com (Krishna Srinivas)
Date:       2008-04-21 6:51:31
Message-ID: ad4bc5820804202339o4a0ea671ne3a829ba561c56a2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:55 PM, B P <bajicpredrag at yahoo.com> 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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