<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>David,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am adding members who are working on glusterd2 (Aravinda) and thin-arbiter support in glusterd (Vishal) and who can</div><div>better reply on these questions.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Patch for glusterd has been sent and it only requires reviews. I hope it should be completed in next 1 month or so. <br></div><div><a href="https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/">https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div>---<br></div><div>Ashish<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"David Cunningham" <dcunningham@voisonics.com><br><b>To: </b>"Ashish Pandey" <aspandey@redhat.com><br><b>Cc: </b>gluster-users@gluster.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, May 3, 2019 8:04:04 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Ashish,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much for that reply. How stable is GD2? Is there even a vague ETA on when it might be supported in gluster?</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 14:30, Ashish Pandey <<a href="mailto:aspandey@redhat.com" target="_blank">aspandey@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>Hi David,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Creation of thin-arbiter volume is currently supported by GD2 only. The command "<code>glustercli</code>" is available when glusterd2 is running.<br></div><div>We are also working on providing thin-arbiter support on glusted however, it is not available right now.<br></div><div><a href="https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/" target="_blank">https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>---<br></div><div>Ashish<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="gmail-m_2754229943830422050zwchr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"David Cunningham" <<a href="mailto:dcunningham@voisonics.com" target="_blank">dcunningham@voisonics.com</a>><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" target="_blank">gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, May 3, 2019 7:40:03 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>We are setting up a thin-arbiter and hope someone can help with some questions. We've been following the documentation from <a href="https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Thin-Arbiter-Volumes/" target="_blank">https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Thin-Arbiter-Volumes/</a>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. What release of 5.x supports thin-arbiter? We tried a "gluster volume create" with the --thin-arbiter option on 5.5 and got an "unrecognized option --thin-arbiter" error.</div><div><br></div><div>2. The instruction to create a new volume with a thin-arbiter is clear. How do you add a thin-arbiter to an already existing volume though?</div><div><br></div><div>3. The documentation suggests running glusterfsd manually to start the thin-arbiter. Is there a service that can do this instead? I found a mention of one in <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579786" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579786</a> but it's not really documented.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your help,</div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_2754229943830422050gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>David Cunningham, Voisonics Limited<br><a href="http://voisonics.com/" target="_blank">http://voisonics.com/</a><br>USA: +1 213 221 1092<br>New Zealand: +64 (0)28 2558 3782</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gluster-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" target="_blank">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" target="_blank">https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>David Cunningham, Voisonics Limited<br><a href="http://voisonics.com/" target="_blank">http://voisonics.com/</a><br>USA: +1 213 221 1092<br>New Zealand: +64 (0)28 2558 3782</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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