I think we're deviating from the original thread quite a bit and I would
never argue that in a production environment with plenty OSDs you should
go for R=2 or K+1, so my example cluster which happens to be 2+1 is a
bit unlucky.
However I'm interested in the following
On 11/16/20 11:31 AM, Janne Johansson wrote:
> So while one could always say "one more drive is better than your
> amount", there are people losing data with repl=2 or K+1 because some
> more normal operation was in flight and _then_ a single surprise
> happens. So you can have a weird reboot, causing those PGs needing
> backfill later, and if one of the uptodate hosts have any single
> surprise during the recovery, the cluster will lack some of the current
> data even if two disks were never down at the same time.
I'm not sure I follow, from a logical perspective they *are* down at the
same time right? In your scenario 1 up-to-date replica was left, but
even that had a surprise. Okay well that's the risk you take with R=2,
but it's not intrinsically different than R=3.
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