Am Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:02:38 -0400 schrieb David Coulson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: Sorry for confusion, I understood you wrong in the first place. Now I guess I know what you mean and I will think about it. Are there more suggestions or official plans from the GlusterFS developers? > Not following. If you have a replica count of 3, you can lose two > boxes in that group and still have access to all your data. It's more > like a 3-way RAID-1 than anything like RAID-6. > > On 3/29/12 11:00 AM, Pascal wrote: > > Am Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:47:38 -0400 > > schrieb David > > Coulson<david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > Hello David, > > > > thanks for your quick reply. I already considered a replica count > > of 3 (and six servers at all, correct?), but the problem would > > still be that two hard drives from the same "replica group" were > > not allowed to fail at the same time. > > > >> Try doing a distributed-replica with a replica count of 3. Not > >> really 'RAID-6' comparable, but you can have two nodes fail > >> without outage. > >> > >> http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.2/Documentation/AG/html/sect-Administration_Guide--Setting_Volumes-Distributed_Replicated.html > >> > >> On 3/29/12 10:39 AM, Pascal wrote: > >>> Hello everyone, > >>> > >>> I would like to know if it is possible to setup a GlusterFS > >>> installation which is comparable to a RAID 6? I did some research > >>> in the community and several mailing lists and all I could find > >>> were the similar request from 2009 > >>> (http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2009-May/002208.html, > >>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.ph/Talk:GlusterFS_Roadmap_Suggestions). > >>> > >>> I would just like to have a scenario where two GlusterFS > >>> nodes/servers, respectively their hard drives, could fail at the > >>> same time. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance! > >>> Pascal > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Gluster-devel mailing list > >>> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-devel mailing list > > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
