Hi, I guess you missed Ravishankar's reply [1] for this query, on your previous thread. [1] https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-April/036247.html
Regards, Karthik On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 8:59 PM Ingo Fischer <i...@fischer-ka.de> wrote: > Hi All, > > I had a replica 2 cluster to host my VM images from my Proxmox cluster. > I got a bit around split brain scenarios by using "nufa" to make sure > the files are located on the host where the machine also runs normally. > So in fact one replica could fail and I still had the VM working. > > But then I thought about doing better and decided to add a node to > increase replica and I decided against arbiter approach. During this I > also decided to go away from nufa to make it a more normal approach. > > But in fact by adding the third replica and removing nufa I'm not really > better on availability - only split-brain-chance. I'm still at the point > that only one node is allowed to fail because else the now active client > quorum is no longer met and FS goes read only (which in fact is not > really better then failing completely as it was before). > > So I thought about adding arbiter bricks as "kind of 4th replica (but > without space needs) ... but then I read in docs that only "replica 3 > arbiter 1" is allowed as combination. Is this still true? > If docs are true: Why arbiter is not allowed for higher replica counts? > It would allow to improve on client quorum in my understanding. > > Thank you for your opinion and/or facts :-) > > Ingo > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@gluster.org > https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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