Re: Ceph mon quorum

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On 04/05/2013 10:12 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote:

> Think about it this way. You have two racks and the network connection
> between them fails. If both racks keep operating because they can still
> reach that single monitor in their rack you will end up with data
> inconsistency.

Yes. In DRBD land it's called 'split brain' and they have (IIRC) entire
chapter in the user manual about picking up the pieces. It's not a new
problem.

> You should place mon.c outside rack A or B to keep you up and running in
> this situation.

It's not about racks, it's about rooms, but let's say rack == room ==
colocation facility. And I have two of those.

Are you saying I need a 3rd colo with all associated overhead to have a
usable replica of my data in colo #2?

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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