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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am in the process of setting up some gluster backed fileservers as part of a LAMP stack, where a pair of web servers using autofs weighting mount a pair of gluster servers. It occurs to me that in order to help overcome split brain in
the event of a DR scenario a quorum server would be useful with quorum set to 51% - so at this point I need to start thinking about the mounting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note that in terms of physical structure I have effectively (in the realms of vmware and real datacentres) 3 data centres so one web/gfs server in the primary, the same in the secondary and just the quorum server in the tertiary data centre
(which really floats between the 2 and will (!) always be up). This way I can be fairly confident that each web server will always have access to either their local gfs server or the quorum server; which means I can take any component out for maintenance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does it make sense for me to have web1 mount gfs1 and gfsq, web2 to mount gfs2 and gfsq with weightings set to away from the quorum server?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think this makes sense but experienced folk out there may tell me better.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Paul Osborne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Systems Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Infrastructure Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">IT Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Canterbury Christ Church University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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