[Gluster-devel] What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

2008-11-14 Thread Onyx
Hi, I just had a problem with a disk failure. It was an ext3 partition, and suddenly, bc of a problem, it automatically remounted as read-only. It was not in a glusterfs setup yet, but it got me thinking... What would have happened if that partition was in an afr setup? I think glusterfs would

Re: [Gluster-devel] What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

2008-11-14 Thread Vikas Gorur
2008/11/14 Onyx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I just had a problem with a disk failure. It was an ext3 partition, and > suddenly, bc of a problem, it automatically remounted as read-only. > It was not in a glusterfs setup yet, but it got me thinking... > What would have happened if that partition

Re: [Gluster-devel] What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

2008-11-14 Thread Onyx
Vikas Gorur wrote: 2008/11/14 Onyx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I just had a problem with a disk failure. It was an ext3 partition, and suddenly, bc of a problem, it automatically remounted as read-only. It was not in a glusterfs setup yet, but it got me thinking... What would have happened if t

Re: [Gluster-devel] What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

2008-11-14 Thread Vikas Gorur
2008/11/14 Onyx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, nice! > But wouldn't that have a huge impact on the write performance? > How about Unify and DHT? Will those setups survive a write attempt to a > read-only volume? Unify and DHT would both return error ("Read-only filesystem") in your situation. Vikas -

Re: [Gluster-devel] What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

2008-11-14 Thread KwangErn Liew
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Vikas Gorur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/14 Onyx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > I just had a problem with a disk failure. It was an ext3 partition, and > > suddenly, bc of a problem, it automatically remounted as read-only. > > It was not in a gluste

Re: [Gluster-devel] What if a subvolume becomes read-only?

2008-11-16 Thread Raghavendra G
Hi, On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:03 AM, KwangErn Liew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Vikas Gorur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2008/11/14 Onyx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I just had a problem with a disk failure. It was an ext3 partition, and >> > sudden