Re: [Gluster-users] design of gluster cluster

2018-06-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:16:32AM +1200, Thing wrote: > I am a bit lost here, why a replica 3 and arbiter 1? ie not replica2 > arbiter1? You'd have to ask the developers about that (I just use gluster, I'm not a dev). I agree that "replica 2 arbiter 1" seems more intuitive, but I suppose "repli

Re: [Gluster-users] design of gluster cluster

2018-06-12 Thread Thing
Hi, I dont have any more hosts available. I am a bit lost here, why a replica 3 and arbiter 1? ie not replica2 arbiter1? also no distributed part? is the distributed flag automatically assumed?with a replica3 then there is a quorum (2 of 3) so no arbiter is needed? I have this running a

Re: [Gluster-users] design of gluster cluster

2018-06-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 03:04:14PM +1200, Thing wrote: > What I would like to do I think is a, > > *Distributed-Replicated volume* > > a) have 1 and 2 as raid1 > b) have 4 and 5 as raid1 > c) have 3 and 6 as a raid1 > d) join this as concatenation 2+2+2tb You probably don't actually want to do t

[Gluster-users] design of gluster cluster

2018-06-11 Thread Thing
Hi, I would like to understand how gluster works better than I do know and in particular the architecture. So I have a test configuration of 6 desktops, each has 2 x 1TB disks in a raid 0 on an esata channel. What I would like to do I think is a, *Distributed-Replicated volume* a) have 1 and 2