[Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions

Wed Jul 31 21:52:09 UTC 2019

Hi Ashish,

Thank you for that! I see on the release-schedule page that Gluster 7 is in
"planning" state, and presumably will be available in a few months. We'll
keep a look out for it.

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 15:51, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> Hi David,
>
> This was the bug fix and it had to go to gluster 6 also in which
> thin-arbiter is supported with glusterd 2.
> However, what you were looking for was the support of thin-arbiter in
> glusterd which is available in gluster 7 only.
>
> So now using gluster 7.0, you can create and use thin-arbiter volume just
> like any other volume with few additional steps.
>
> Following is the command you can use -
>
> gluster volume create <VOLNAME> replica 2 thin-arbiter 1 <host1>:<brick1>
> <host2>:<brick2> <thin-arbiter-host>:<path-to-store-replica-id-file> [force]
>
> Before that you have to run thin-arbiter process on TA host.
> The above command you can use only with release 7 and not with older
> release.
>
> Patches which got merged for this change are -
> https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22992/ - release 7
> https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/ - master
>
>
> I am trying to come up with modified document/blog for this asap.
>
> ---
> Ashish
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"David Cunningham" <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
> *To: *"Hari Gowtham" <hgowtham at redhat.com>
> *Cc: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, July 24, 2019 5:17:50 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>
> Hello,
>
> I see references to fixes for thin-arbiter on the 6.x release notes. Does
> that mean thin-arbiter is ready to use on glusterfs 6 please?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 17:42, Hari Gowtham <hgowtham at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> The committing should happen a little earlier than 10th. The tagging is
>> the one which decides if the patch makes it to the release or not and
>> tagging happens before 10th. We do announce the tagging date for each
>> release in the mailing list. You can keep an eye on that to know the dates.
>> And committing in master won't be enough for it to make it to a release. If
>> it has to be a part of release 6 then after being committed into master we
>> have to back port it to the release 6 branch and it should get committed in
>> that particular branch as well. Only then it will be a part of the package
>> released for that branch.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Jun, 2019, 4:24 AM David Cunningham, <
>> dcunningham at voisonics.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hari,
>>>
>>> Thanks for that information. So if I understand correctly, if
>>> thin-arbiter is committed to the master branch by the 10th July, then it
>>> should be in the CentOS package fairly soon afterwards?
>>>
>>> I have a customer asking when we can use it, hence the questions. Thank
>>> you.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 17:24, Hari Gowtham <hgowtham at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>> Once a feature is added to the master branch, we have to back port it
>>>> to the release 5, 6 and other such branches which are active. And these
>>>> release branches will be tagged every month around 10th. So if an feature
>>>> has been back ported to the particular release branch before tagging, then
>>>> it will be a part of the tagging. And this tag is the one used for creating
>>>> packaging. This is the procedure for CentOS, Fedora and Debian.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Hari.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 18 Jun, 2019, 4:06 AM David Cunningham, <
>>>> dcunningham at voisonics.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ashish,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for that. I guess it's not your responsibility, but do you know
>>>>> how often it typically takes for new versions to reach the CentOS package
>>>>> system after being released?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 17:15, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It should be any time soon as we are in last phase of patch reviews.
>>>>>> You can follow this patch -
>>>>>> https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Ashish
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>> *From: *"David Cunningham" <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>>> *To: *"Ashish Pandey" <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>>> *Cc: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>>>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 11, 2019 9:55:40 AM
>>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ashish and Amar,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any news on when thin-arbiter might be in the regular
>>>>>> GlusterFS, and the CentOS packages please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 20:34, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>> *From: *"David Cunningham" <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>>>> *To: *"Ashish Pandey" <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>>>> *Cc: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>>>>>> *Sent: *Monday, May 6, 2019 1:40:30 PM
>>>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Ashish,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for the update. Does that mean they're now in the regular
>>>>>>> Glusterfs? Any idea how long it typically takes the Ubuntu and CentOS
>>>>>>> packages  to be updated with the latest code?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, for regular glusterd, work is still in progress. It will be done
>>>>>>> soon.
>>>>>>> I don't have answer for the next question. May be Amar have
>>>>>>> information regarding this. Adding him in CC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 18:21, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I can see that Amar has already committed the changes and those are
>>>>>>>> visible on
>>>>>>>> https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Thin-Arbiter-Volumes/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> Ashish
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>> *From: *"Strahil" <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com>
>>>>>>>> *To: *"Ashish" <aspandey at redhat.com>, "David" <
>>>>>>>> dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>>>>> *Cc: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>>>>>>> *Sent: *Saturday, May 4, 2019 12:10:01 AM
>>>>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Ashish,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can someone commit the doc change I have already proposed ?
>>>>>>>> At least, the doc will clarify that fact .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>>> Strahil Nikolov
>>>>>>>> On May 3, 2019 05:30, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Creation of thin-arbiter volume is currently supported by GD2 only.
>>>>>>>> The command "glustercli" is available when glusterd2 is running.
>>>>>>>> We are also working on providing thin-arbiter support on glusted
>>>>>>>> however, it is not available right now.
>>>>>>>> https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> Ashish
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>> *From: *"David Cunningham" <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>>>>> *To: *gluster-users at gluster.org
>>>>>>>> *Sent: *Friday, May 3, 2019 7:40:03 AM
>>>>>>>> *Subject: *[Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We are setting up a thin-arbiter and hope someone can help with
>>>>>>>> some questions. We've been following the documentation from
>>>>>>>> https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Thin-Arbiter-Volumes/
>>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1. What release of 5.x supports thin-arbiter? We tried a "gluster
>>>>>>>> volume create" with the --thin-arbiter option on 5.5 and got an
>>>>>>>> "unrecognized option --thin-arbiter" error.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2. The instruction to create a new volume with a thin-arbiter is
>>>>>>>> clear. How do you add a thin-arbiter to an already existing volume though?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 3. The documentation suggests running glusterfsd manually to start
>>>>>>>> the thin-arbiter. Is there a service that can do this instead? I found a
>>>>>>>> mention of one in
>>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579786 but it's not
>>>>>>>> really documented.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> David Cunningham, Voisonics Limited
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>
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