[Gluster-users] Keeping it Simple replication for HA

Paul Cuzner pcuzner at redhat.com
Mon Sep 14 20:28:24 UTC 2015


Have you considered the disperse volume? We'd normally advocate 6 servers
for a +2 redundancy factor though.

Paul C

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:47 AM, <aaron at ajserver.com> wrote:

> Gluster users,
>
> I am looking to implement GlusterFS on my network for large, expandable,
> and redundant storage.
>
> I have 5 servers with 1 brick each.  All I want is a simple replication
> that requires at least 3 of the 5 bricks have a copy of the data so I can
> lose any 2 bricks without data loss.  I have tried replica 3 with 5 bricks
> but it seems to complain that my # of bricks must be a multiple of of my
> replica count.
>
> There a simple replication method like replica=3 with 5 bricks with
> glusterfs?  Is there a better or different technology I can use for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
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