<div dir="ltr"><div>As long as the VM isn't hosted on one of the two Gluster nodes, that's perfectly fine. One of my smaller clusters uses the same setup.<br><br></div>As for your other questions, as long as it supports Unix file permissions, Gluster doesn't care what filesystem you use. Mix & match as you wish. Just try to keep matching Gluster versions across your nodes.<br><br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 June 2017 at 16:10, mabi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mabi@protonmail.ch" target="_blank">mabi@protonmail.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello,<br></div><div><br>I have a replica 2 GlusterFS 3.8.11 cluster on 2 Debian 8 physical servers using ZFS as filesystem. Now in order to avoid a split-brain situation I would like to add a third node as arbiter.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the arbiter node I have a few questions:<br></div><div>- can the arbiter node be a virtual machine? (I am planning to use Xen as hypervisor)<br></div><div>- can I use ext4 as file system on my arbiter? or does it need to be ZFS as the two other nodes?<br></div><div>- or should I use here XFS with LVM this provisioning as mentioned in the <br></div><div>- is it OK that my arbiter runs Debian 9 (Linux kernel v4) and my other two nodes run Debian 8 (kernel v3)?<br></div><div>- what about thin provisioning of my volume on the arbiter node (<a href="https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/" target="_blank">https://gluster.readthedocs.<wbr>io/en/latest/Administrator%<wbr>20Guide/Setting%20Up%<wbr>20Volumes/</a>) is this required? on my two other nodes I do not use any thin provisioning neither LVM but simply ZFS. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your input.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div>Mabi<br></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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