[Gluster-users] corruption using gluster and iSCSI with LIO

Olivier Lambert lambert.olivier at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 22:35:21 UTC 2016


It's planned to have an arbiter soon :) It was just preliminary tests.

Thanks for the settings, I'll test this soon and I'll come back to you!

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Lindsay Mathieson
<lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/11/2016 8:17 AM, Olivier Lambert wrote:
>>
>> gluster volume info gv0
>>
>> Volume Name: gv0
>> Type: Replicate
>> Volume ID: 2f8658ed-0d9d-4a6f-a00b-96e9d3470b53
>> Status: Started
>> Snapshot Count: 0
>> Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
>> Transport-type: tcp
>> Bricks:
>> Brick1: 10.0.0.1:/bricks/brick1/gv0
>> Brick2: 10.0.0.2:/bricks/brick1/gv0
>> Options Reconfigured:
>> nfs.disable: on
>> performance.readdir-ahead: on
>> transport.address-family: inet
>> features.shard: on
>> features.shard-block-size: 16MB
>
>
>
> When hosting VM's its essential to set these options:
>
> network.remote-dio: enable
> cluster.eager-lock: enable
> performance.io-cache: off
> performance.read-ahead: off
> performance.quick-read: off
> performance.stat-prefetch: on
> performance.strict-write-ordering: off
> cluster.server-quorum-type: server
> cluster.quorum-type: auto
> cluster.data-self-heal: on
>
> Also with replica two and quorum on (required) your volume will become
> read-only when one node goes down to prevent the possibility of split-brain
> - you *really* want to avoid that :)
>
> I'd recommend a replica 3 volume, that way 1 node can go down, but the other
> two still form a quorum and will remain r/w.
>
> If the extra disks are not possible, then a Arbiter volume can be setup -
> basically dummy files on the third node.
>
>
>
> --
> Lindsay Mathieson
>
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