Hi All, I had a replica 2 cluster to host my VM images from my Proxmox cluster. I got a bit around split brain scenarios by using "nufa" to make sure the files are located on the host where the machine also runs normally. So in fact one replica could fail and I still had the VM working. But then I thought about doing better and decided to add a node to increase replica and I decided against arbiter approach. During this I also decided to go away from nufa to make it a more normal approach. But in fact by adding the third replica and removing nufa I'm not really better on availability - only split-brain-chance. I'm still at the point that only one node is allowed to fail because else the now active client quorum is no longer met and FS goes read only (which in fact is not really better then failing completely as it was before). So I thought about adding arbiter bricks as "kind of 4th replica (but without space needs) ... but then I read in docs that only "replica 3 arbiter 1" is allowed as combination. Is this still true? If docs are true: Why arbiter is not allowed for higher replica counts? It would allow to improve on client quorum in my understanding. Thank you for your opinion and/or facts :-) Ingo -- Ingo Fischer Technical Director of Platform Gameforge 4D GmbH Albert-Nestler-Straße 8 76131 Karlsruhe Germany Tel. +49 721 354 808-2269 ingo.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gameforge.com Amtsgericht Mannheim, Handelsregisternummer 718029 USt-IdNr.: DE814330106 Geschäftsführer Alexander Rösner, Jeffrey Brown _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
