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On 29-Mar-2016 10:43 pm, "Russell Purinton" <russell.purinton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I have used the add-brick command in the past but I’m not sure how to go about using it to do this…
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> Could anyone provide an example?
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> As shown below, the current setup, xs141 is replica with xs138. xs139 is replica with xs140. I would like to have 139 serve as arbiter for 141 and 138. And I’d like 141 to serve as arbiter for 139 and 140.
I don't think that's possible. IIRC, the last brick in the replica pair is considered to be an arbiter brick and I am not aware of any changes in the behaviour post that. So in short, if you execute add-brick then all the new bricks will be considered as arbiter IMO.
Ravi can correct me otherwise.
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>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> -Atin
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>> On 29-Mar-2016 10:21 pm, "Russell Purinton" <russell.purinton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > I have several existing volumes configured in the following way:
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>> > Volume Name: sonic001
>> > Type: Distributed-Replicate
>> > Volume ID: 362eb3a8-c211-4f35-bcd3-87785c51f15c
>> > Status: Started
>> > Number of Bricks: 4 x 2 = 8
>> > Transport-type: tcp
>> > Bricks:
>> > Brick1: xs141:/brick1/sonic001p0r0
>> > Brick2: xs138:/brick1/sonic001p0r1
>> > Brick3: xs139:/brick1/sonic001p1r0
>> > Brick4: xs140:/brick1/sonic001p1r1
>> > Brick5: xs141:/brick0/sonic001p2r0
>> > Brick6: xs138:/brick0/sonic001p2r1
>> > Brick7: xs139:/brick0/sonic001p4r0
>> > Brick8: xs140:/brick0/sonic001p3r1
>> >
>> > I recently learned that replica 2 can’t be considered HA because of the split brain scenario that would occur if a network partition occurred. I also recently learned that using replica 3 arbiter 1 was a way to solve this problem without consuming additional space.
>> >
>> > Is there a way I can change this existing volume to be replica 3 arbiter 1, or do I need to create new volumes and rsync the data?
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>> I think you should be able to convert the volume topology using add-brick command.
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>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Russ
>> >
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