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<p>Right, I wasn't trying to use the clustering feature. "cluster" appears in the docs and a lot of the commands take or show a cluster ID, so I wondered what it meant it the system as it stands now. I might have been trying to read it too literally. Also, the formatting of my earlier questions got screwed up and were hard to read. I'll try again.</p>
<p>If you create a master PFS on a filesystem without specifying a cluster ID, I think what you end up with is an entirely independent "root" that can use whatever space is available on the filesystem. It's independent of other PFSes, meaning that the content is different. Is that a correct understanding?</p>
<p>If you create a master on that filesystem and specify the cluster ID that already exists, I'm not sure what you end up with. It does allow that, however. What is that configuration (multiple masters for a cluster ID) for? Maybe that would useful for a cluster distributed across machines, but not currently?</p>
<p>If you create a slave (by specifying an existing cluster ID), it seems to be what you'd expect: a copy of the master. But you can't mount it when the master is also mounted. Did I do something that doesn't make sense?</p>
<p>As for the cluster ID, I didn't consider the possibility that you should just pay attention to it or use it at all in the commands. Maybe I should just not use it now?</p>
<p>Chuck</p>
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<p>On 2020-04-23 19:49,atthew Dillon wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">For now don't try to cluster anything. That work is still in-progress. You can create multiple independent masters on the same device, and you can snapshot them, as well as be able to write to the snapshots. That all works. The snapshots basically work the same as masters.
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