Thanks a lot Greg, nice to hear!

2017-08-15 21:17 GMT+02:00 Gregory Farnum <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:28 AM David Turner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> There is nothing that will stop you from having an even number of mons
>> (including 2).  You just run the chance of getting into a split brain
>> scenario.
>>
>
> Just a note: even numbers of monitors mean that it's easier to lose
> quorums, but they cannot create a classic split brain (in which two sets of
> monitors both think they are in charge). We work very hard to avoid that
> situation ever arising in RADOS. :)
> -Greg
>
>
> As long as you aren't planning to stay in that scenario, I don't see a
>> problem with it.  I have 3 mons in my home cluster and I've had to remove
>> one before leaving me with 2 for a few hours while I re-provisioned the
>> third and nothing funky happened.
>>
>> Most ways to deploy a cluster allow you to create the cluster with 3+
>> mons at the same time (inital_mons).  What are you doing that only allows
>> you to add one at a time?
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:22 PM Oscar Segarra <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to test and script the adding monitors process adding one by
>>> one monitors to the ceph infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have two mon's running on two servers (one mon each)
>>> --> I can assume that mon quorum won't be reached until both servers are up.
>>>
>>> Is this right?
>>>
>>> I have not been able to find any documentation about the behaviour of
>>> the sistem with just two monitors (or an even number of them).
>>>
>>> thanks a lot.
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