[Gluster-users] Distributed-Replicated adding/removing nodes

[Arnold Krille]

Hi,

On Monday 13 February 2012 17:17:47 Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> I have 3 servers, but want replicate = 2. To do this I have 2 bricks on
> each server:
> 
> Example output:
> 
> Volume Name: images
> Type: Distributed-Replicate
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 3 x 2 = 6
> Transport-type: rdma
> Bricks:
> Brick1: lab0:/g0
> Brick2: lab1:/g0
> Brick3: lab2:/g0
> Brick4: lab0:/g1
> Brick5: lab1:/g1
> Brick6: lab2:/g1
> 
> If I want to add lab3:/g0 and lab3:/g1, it will end up looking like this:
> 
> Volume Name: images
> Type: Distributed-Replicate
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 4 x 2 = 8
> Transport-type: rdma
> Bricks:
> Brick1: lab0:/g0
> Brick2: lab1:/g0
> Brick3: lab2:/g0
> Brick4: lab0:/g1
> Brick5: lab1:/g1
> Brick6: lab2:/g1
> Brick7: lab3:/g0
> Brick8: lab3:/g1
> 
> This seems like files could potentially both be stuck on lab3. Do I need to
> do some crazy migrations to move bricks around? Is this somewhat automated?

You have to replace one of the exisiting bricks (lets assume lab2/g0) with 
lab3/g0, wipe the data from the old brick lab2/g0 and then add another pair of 
bricks of lab2/g0-lab3/g1. Which then gives you:

> Volume Name: images
> Type: Distributed-Replicate
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 4 x 2 = 8
> Transport-type: rdma
> Bricks:
> Brick1: lab0:/g0
> Brick2: lab1:/g0
> Brick3: lab3:/g0
> Brick4: lab0:/g1
> Brick5: lab1:/g1
> Brick6: lab2:/g1
> Brick7: lab2:/g0
> Brick8: lab3:/g1

But with this you still only protect yourself against one failing node. The 
same as with three nodes.

Have fun,

Arnold
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