>I checked and it is on. It is a very sensible default. Actually,
>not even knowing about this option, I had taken it for granted
>that mounting a volume as localhost:/vol would always read from
>the local brick first.
Actually FUSE client is way smarter and has the ability to pick the brick that
reponses first (which usually means less loaded), but that behaviour is managed
by cluster.choose-local .
In your case the default is suitable.
About the docs... it's in github and if you got some time to update it - all
PRs are welcome.
Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov