[Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions

Tue Nov 19 05:13:19 UTC 2019

Hi David,

I just updated the testing report -
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/763

Looks like there are some more minor issues in v7.0. I am planning to send
fixes soon, so these can be fixed in v7.1

-Amar

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:49 AM David Cunningham <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I see that GlusterFS 7 is now released. The release notes don't mention
> Thin Arbiter, but I presume it's included? Is anyone able to comment on
> whether it should be considered production quality? (wondering whether to
> recommend to a customer or not)
>
> Does anyone have an idea when the CentOS package will be released for
> GlusterFS 7?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> 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
>>>>>>>>> http://voisonics.com/
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>>>>>>>>> New Zealand: +64 (0)28 2558 3782
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>>>>
>>>
>>
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