[Gluster-users] Quorum replica 2 and arbiter

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Mahdi Adnan <mahdi.adnan at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a replica 2 volume and we have issue with setting proper quorum.
>
> The volumes used as datastore for vmware/ovirt, the current settings for
> the quorum are:
>
>
>
> cluster.quorum-type: auto
>
> cluster.server-quorum-type: server
>
> cluster.server-quorum-ratio: 51%
>
>
>
> Losing the first node which hosting the first bricks will take the storage
> domain in ovirt offline but in the FUSE mount point works fine "read/write"
>
> Losing the second node or any other node that hosts only the second bricks
> of the replication will not affect ovirt storage domain i.e 2nd or 4th
> ndoes.
>
> As i understand, losing the first brick in replica 2 volumes will render
> the volume to read only, but how FUSE mount works in read write ?
>
> Also, can we add an arbiter node to the current replica 2 volume without
> losing data ? if yes, does the re-balance bug "Bug 1440635" affect this
> process ?
>
> And what happen if we set "cluster.quorum-type: none" and the first node
> goes offline ?
>
> Thank you.
>
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