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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/02/2018 06:26 AM, W Kern wrote:<br>
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        On 8/1/18 11:04 AM, Amar Tumballi wrote:<br>
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      Well yes that does answer some. By skipping a lot more of the
      arbiter traffic, there may be some noticeable performance benefits
      especially in an older 1G network.<br>
      At least until you have to deal with a failure situation.<br>
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      Though the "would you use it on a VM, either now or when the code
      is more seasoned?" question is still there.<br>
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      I'm willing to try it out on some non-critical VMs (cloud-native
      stuff, where I always spawn from a golden image), but if it is not
      ready for production, then I don't want to bother with it at the
      moment.<br>
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    Hi WK, <br>
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    There are a few patches [1]  that are still undergoing review .  It
    would be good to wait for some more time until trying it out. If you
    are interested in testing, I'll be happy to inform you once they get
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    [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20095/">https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20095/</a>,
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20103/">https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20103/</a>,
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20577/">https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20577/</a><br>
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    Regards,<br>
    Ravi<br>
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                  rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I see mentions of
                  thin arbiter in the 4.x notes and I am intrigued.<br>
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                  As I understand it, the thin arbiter volume is<br>
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                  a) receives its data on an async basis (thus it can be
                  on a slower link). Thus gluster isn't waiting around
                  to verify if it actually got the data.<br>
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                  b) is only consulted in situations where Gluster needs
                  that third vote, otherwise it is not consulted.<br>
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                  c) Performance should therefore be better because
                  Gluster is only seriously talking to 2 nodes instead
                  of 3 nodes (as in normal arbiter or rep 3)<br>
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                  Am I correct?<br>
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                  If so, is thin arbiter ready for production or at
                  least use on non-critical workloads?<br>
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                  How safe is it for VMs images (and/or VMs with
                  sharding)?<br>
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                  How much faster is thin arbiter setup over a normal
                  arbiter given that the normal data only really sees
                  the metadata?<br>
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                  In a degraded situation (i.e. loss of one real node),
                  would having a thin arbiter on a slow link be
                  problematic until everything is healed and returned to
                  normal?<br>
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                  Sincerely,<br>
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                  -wk<br>
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