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<pre wrap="">Hello Andreas,
we are testing stripe 2 replica 3 arbiter 1 gluster volume, it's running, but not supported by Ovirt 3.5.6.2 ( can't create 'storage" , with "unsupported" message )
This is running in 5 node gluster. Node 5 dedicated only for arbiter bricks and has no "big disks".
exam:
gluster volume create AAAA stripe 2 replica 3 arbiter 1 \
brick1_data:/replica1/GFS brick2_data:/replica1/GFS brick5_arbiter:/replica1/GFS \
brick3_data:/replica2/GFS brick5_data:/replica2/GFS brick5_arbiter:/replica2/GFS
Arbiter node hold only metadata and is common for all volumes. Can run VMs ( data over interconnect )
pbauer
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:26:53 +0530
From: Ravishankar N <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ravishankar@redhat.com"><ravishankar@redhat.com></a>
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Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Automatic arbiter volumes on
distributed/replicated volumes with replica 2?
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On 03/24/2016 04:30 PM, Andr? Bauer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">So if you have a 4 node cluster is it realy needed to have a third
replica? Imho the 2 of the nodes could also be used as arbiters?
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<pre wrap="">I'm not sure I understand. The 'arbiter' volume is a special type of
replica volume where the 3rd brick of that replica (for every replica)
only holds metadata. So if you're asking if this brick itself can be
co-located on a node which holds the other 'data' bricks of the volume,
then yes that is possible.
-Ravi
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<pre wrap="">Does it make sense to open a feature request in the bugtracker?
Regards
Andr?
Am 24.03.2016 um 11:02 schrieb Ravishankar N:
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<pre wrap="">On 03/24/2016 02:39 PM, Andr? Bauer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi List,
we just upgraded out 4 node cluster from 3.5.8 to 3.7.8.
Because of replica 2 on all volumes i run into problems with read only
file systems of vm images when running on 3.5.x. As i know now the
solution would be to have replica 3 or at least use arbiter volumes.
Yesterday i stumbled over this post in the list which i missed before
(damn spam filter):
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-November/024191.html">https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-November/024191.html</a>
Steve Dainard is pointing out that 3.7.x uses an automatic arbiter, when
you have 4 nodes configured as distributed/replicated.
Is this true? Could not find something about it in the documentation :-/
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<pre wrap="">There is no 'automatic' arbiter for replica 2. I think he was referring
to the dummy node peer probed for maintaining server quorum.
-Ravi
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<pre wrap="">Would be nice i could save on having 2 more nodes this way.
If not, is there a chance to see such feature in the future?
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