[Gluster-users] Why is it not possible to mount a replicated gluster volume with one Gluster server?

[Vijay Bellur]

On Monday 31 August 2015 10:42 PM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>  > 2. Server2 dies. Server1 has to reboot.
>  >
>  > In this case the service stays down. It is inpossible to remount the
> share without Server1. This is not acceptable for a High Availability
> System and I believe also not intended, but a misconfiguration or bug.
> This is exactly what I gave as an example in the thread (please read
> again). GlusterD is not supposed to start brick process if its other
> counter part hasn't come up yet in a 2 node setup. The reason it has
> been designed in this way is to block GlusterD on operating on a volume
> which could be stale as the node was down and cluster was operational
> earlier.

For two node deployments, a third dummy node is recommended to ensure 
that quorum is maintained when one of the nodes is down.

Regards,
Vijay