On 08/29/2014 11:22 PM, J David wrote: > So an even number N of monitors doesn't give you any better fault > resilience than N-1 monitors. And the more monitors you have, the > more traffic there is between them. So when N is even, N monitors > consume more resources and provide no extra benefit compared to N-1 > monitors. Except for more copies ;) But yeah, if you're going with 2 or 4, you'll be better off with 3 or 5. As long as you don't go with 1 you should be okay. Only go with 1 if you're truly okay with losing whatever you're storing if that one monitor's disk is fried. -Joao -- Joao Eduardo Luis Software Engineer | http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com