[Gluster-users] geo-replication master is distributed-replicated, slave is distributed only?

[M S Vishwanath Bhat]

On 24 August 2015 at 01:11, Christian Rice <crice at pandora.com> wrote:

> Thanks so much for the response.  I want to be sure I understand your
> caveat about slave volume being larger—that is not intuitive.  I’d think
> the slave volume could be the same size, that is, same useable space as
> seen by a fuse client.  Where does a larger slave volume size requirement
> come from, if I may ask?
>

Well, slave *can* be of sma esize as master (useable space). There is no
need for slave to me *more* size than master.

But if you expand your master volume, make sure to expand slave volume as
well.

//MS


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> From: M S Vishwanath Bhat <msvbhat at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 10:59 AM
> To: Christian Rice <crice at pandora.com>
> Cc: "gluster-users at gluster.org" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] geo-replication master is
> distributed-replicated, slave is distributed only?
>
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> On 21 August 2015 at 23:46, Christian Rice <crice at pandora.com> wrote:
>
>> I’d like to have a distributed-replicated master volume, and
>> distributed-only slave.
>>
>> Can this be done?  Just beginning the research, but so far I’ve only done
>> geo-replication with distributed-only volumes.  Tips/caveats on this kind
>> architecture are welcome.
>>
>
> Yes, This can be done. Both master and slave can be of different
> configurations.
>
> But make sure that your slave volume has more effective size available
> than the master volume.
>
> HTH
>
> //MS
>
>
>>
>> The rationale is straightforward—the master volume should be able to stay
>> available with all data when suffering a node loss, but the geo-replicated
>> volumes can be taken offline for repairs and resync as soon as possible.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christian
>>
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