Hello David,
we aren't the core developers of GlusterFS, but we are developing a new translator that will be able to implement something similar to a RAID6. In fact it will be able to have a configurable level of redundacy. A redundancy of 1 is equivalent to RAID 5; a redundancy of 2 is equivalent to RAID 6; and higher levels of redundancy are supported.
We are also trying to improve performance over replicate by using a new contention detection and locking mecanism, but no promises about that yet.
We plan to begin internal tests soon. When we consider it stable, we will release a first beta.
Xavi
On 29.03.2012 17:14, Pascal wrote:
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.htmlOn 3/29/12 10:39 AM, Pascal wrote:_______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-develHello 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
