Kelvin, This works as you would expect. To NOT have a single point of failure you need to have a minimum of two (2) GlusterFS servers and you need to use replicate translator to mirror (between volumes on each server). Replicating between two volumes on a single GFS server would give you a RAID1-like setup, but the server would be a single point of failure. In addition you may want to use the distribute translator if you want to distribute across multiple volumes on each server. For lack of a better term that gives you a RAID10-like setup. You can then mount the GFS volume on as many clients as you wish. -Larry Message: 8 Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:45:11 +0100 From: "Kelvin Westlake" <Kelvin.Westlake at netbasic.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Mount RAID 1 volume of a couple of servers To: <gluster-users at gluster.org> Message-ID: <9ECAC59DBF16A744BACD207C9BDAFA34CA250C at zippy.rainbow.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I didn't explain this very well, basically I've got several glusterfs clients and I'd like to connect them all to the same replicated glusterfs volume. Has anybody else tried this? If so, are there any problems I need to be aware of? Thanks K This email with any attachments is for the exclusive and confidential use of the addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged information. Any other distribution, use or reproduction without the senders prior consent is unauthorised and strictly prohibited. If you receive this message in error please notify the sender by email and delete the message from your computer. Netbasic Limited registered office and business address is 9 Funtley Court, Funtley Hill, Fareham, Hampshire PO16 7UY. Company No. 04906681. Netbasic Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in respect of regulated activities. Please note that many of our activities do not require FSA regulation. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users End of Gluster-users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 11 *********************************************