----- Original Message ----- > > As part of the first phase, we aim to delegate the distributed > > configuration > > store. We are exploring consul [1] as a replacement for the existing > > distributed configuration store (sum total of /var/lib/glusterd/* across > > all > > nodes). Consul provides distributed configuration store which is consistent > > and partition tolerant. By moving all Gluster related configuration > > information into consul we could avoid split-brain situations. > > Overall, I like the idea. But I think you knew that. ;) Thanks. I am glad you like it :-) > > Is the idea to run consul on all nodes as we do with glusterd, or to run > it only on a few nodes (similar to Ceph's mon cluster) and then use them > to coordinate membership etc. for the rest? It is not set in stone, but I think we should have consul running only on a subset of the nodes in the cluster, similar to Ceph's mon cluster approach. ~KP > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users