On 10/24/2011 12:44 PM, Robert Krig wrote: > > On 10/24/2011 11:11 AM, Venky Shankar wrote: >> On 10/24/2011 02:16 PM, Robert Krig wrote: >>> I've been reading the documentation, but I'm a bit stumped as to how to >>> setup geo-replication with glusterfs. >>> >>> The documentation mentions that you use an existing glusterfs volume to >>> start geo replication. But what kind of volume? Do you just create a >>> standard replicated volume with a replica count of 1? >> Geo-rep only needs the volume name. You can create volume of any type >> (plain distribute, replicate, distribute-replicate etc...) and use it >> as the master volume for geo-replication. Suppose you have a >> distribute-replicate volume called 'vol-dr' then you start geo-rep by: >> >> # gluster volume geo-replication vol-dr <slave> start >> > So if I want to just create a simple 2 server master>slave setup, what > would be the best choice for the initial Gluster volume? Replicated with > a single node? > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users I've been trying a few things out, it seems for geo-replication you need a third node. Or am I overlooking something? I would like to try to setup a A->B geo-replication setup. One node being replicated by a slave node. But if I try to create a replicated volume, glusterfs insists on at least two bricks. Or should I try creating a distributed gluster volume with just one brick?
