Differnce of Filer and Volume

[Bhavesh Kharwa]

Hello,

what is the difference between Filer and Volume?

Also give me a example of Filer and Volume with failover (i.e. if any volume server down then will get the file information from another Volume)

For example :

weed master -mdir="C:\opt\idsk\dir\master"
weed volume -max=100 -mserver="localhost:9333" -dir="C:\opt\idsk\dir\server1" -port 8080 -fileSizeLimitMB=10000
weed volume -max=100 -mserver="localhost:9333" -dir="C:\opt\idsk\dir\server2" -port 8081 -fileSizeLimitMB=10000

If volume 8080 is down then when I download the file then it will give response from volume 8081 something like replication

[ChrisLu]

https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Directories-and-Files

This has details of why Filer is needed.

For replication, when trying to locate the a file by volume id, there will be 2 volume server locations returned. The clients can try the other one if the first try failed.

Chris