2012/11/17 Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Ah, ok. By default, the OSDs use the backend network for heartbeats, > so if it fails, they will notice and report peers they can't reach as > failed to the monitors, and the normal failure handling takes care > of things. > > If you're worried about consistency, remember that a write won't > complete until it's on disk on all replicas. If you're interested > in the gory details of maintaining consistency, check out the peering > process [1]. Ok. now it's clear. So it will be safe to use a single NIC for backend network. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html