[Gluster-users] in a replicated setup, how safe is it to take a brick down

2012-04-20 Thread lejeczek
is it safe at all, a) a disaster, imagine CPU blows up b) deliberately, in a control fashion thanks everybody ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users

Re: [Gluster-users] in a replicated setup, how safe is it to take a brick down

2012-04-20 Thread Arnold Krille
On Friday 20 April 2012 10:28:35 lejeczek wrote: is it safe at all, a) a disaster, imagine CPU blows up b) deliberately, in a control fashion My first tests show that replicated volumes are still accessible when one node is shut down hard or slow. And the changes are replicated back when the

Re: [Gluster-users] Performance issues with striped volume over Infiniband

2012-04-20 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Max out the number of IO threads and apply a patch to make gluster more agressive about spawning threads as in this thread: http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2012-February/009590.html (the above thread is actually pretty good for getting performance out of gluster with infiniband (I use

[Gluster-users] Upgrading from V3.0 production system to V3.3

2012-04-20 Thread Larry Bates
Before I undertake this upgrade I thought I would see if anyone has any advice on how to do this on a production system. Maybe someone has already fought this dragon. Current config Gluster V3.0.0. This has been in production for over 16 months: 2 servers with 8 x 2TB hard drives (bricks)