[Gluster-users] Website storage recommendations

[Dave Warren]

Is there no way to accomplish this with a simple distributed volume with 
replica 2?

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On 2016-02-16 23:14, Serkan Çoban wrote:
> You can survive loosing 2 servers out of 5 by using disperse volumes
> with 3+2 configuration. But in your case, web hosting, with lots of
> small files and random read/write it is not recommended.
> Maybe you can test the workload and give it a try. Other than disperse
> volumes I don't know a solution that will handle failure of 2 out of 5
> servers.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Thorvald Hallvardsson
> <thorvald.hallvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I need to build a backend storage for the website hosting. Storage needs to
>> be highly available and easily expandable. I have 5 servers with 300GB disks
>> for that purpose. I would like to create volume replicated with a 100GB of
>> size. I want the configuration which will accept 2 boxes being down at the
>> same time without losing any data.
>>
>> Can you please suggest what is the desired configuration of the brick in
>> that case ?
>>
>> I have seen some posts here on the group where people mentioned something
>> that some replica configurations works in expected - from gluster point of
>> view - way but unexpected - from the user point of view - where you lose one
>> box and the volume goes RO. I want to avoid that situation.
>>
>> I also want to use FUSE driver and configure it in the way that clients will
>> be able to access all 5 servers at the same time.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> TH
>>
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