<div dir="ltr">Use the latest 3.8.x though for doing this process. I remember there was some performance issue with arbtier+sharding which is fixed in latest 3.8.x release.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ravishankar N <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravishankar@redhat.com" target="_blank">ravishankar@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p dir="auto" style="text-align:left;margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:25px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;background-color:white">Also,
can we add an arbiter node to the current replica
2 volume without losing data ? if yes, does the
re-balance bug "Bug 1440635" affect this process ?</p>
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<div> I remember we had one user in Redhat who wanted to do the
same procedure on his production workload with 3.8.x upstream
bits and it worked fine. I forget which version it was. Ravi, do
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</span><p>Looks like 3.8.0 contains the CLI to convert replica 2 to
arbiter: <a class="m_3546198329589171205moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://review.gluster.org/14502" target="_blank">http://review.gluster.org/<wbr>14502</a><br>
Increasing replica count doesn't trigger rebalance. Self-heal
daemon will automatically sync the metadata to the arbiter brick
after you add it.<br>
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