On Feb 13, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Ravishankar N <ravishankar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > About the docs, could you list the links for client and server quorum where you found the details to be inadequate? I can't seem to find anything myself on readthedocs.:( > I'm anyway planning to do a detailed write up for arbiter volumes, split-brains, client and server quorums which can serve as a ready reckoner. So, http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_Concepts can explain that replica 2 is unlike RAID-1. It can state that to achieve RAID-1, one must use replica 3. http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/ likewise talks about high availability and replicated, but it could explain that replica 3 is required to achieve RAID-1. In http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/release-3.7.0/Features/server-quorum/ it states: > Therefore, it is highly advisable to ensure that the cluster size is three or greater. So, I would have an easier time understanding this, is cluster size was linked to a definition. Would my reading be correct if I read this as replica 3 or greater? > It need only be present to preserve the notion of a quorum majority less than the entire cluster membership, allowing the cluster to survive the loss of a single node without losing quorum. Again, here it talks about cluster membership. I think I incorrectly viewed this as relating to the total list of peers rather than the replica count. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels 2 - https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
