Re: How safe is k=2, m=1, min_size=2?

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:36 AM Dan van der Ster <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have said in the past that an EC pool should have min_size=k+1, for
> the same reasons that a replica 3 pool needs min_size=2.
> And we've heard several stories about replica 3, min_size=1 leading to
> incomplete PGs.
>
> Taking a quick poll -- did anyone ever suffer an outage on a pool with
> k=2, m=1, min_size=2?

I don't know about losses, but I'd expect this configuration to be
slightly less safe than replica 2 — you lose data after 2 related
disks crash, but you have 3 related disks that can fail instead of
only 2.
-Greg
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