If min_size=1 and you loose the last disk, that's end of any data that was only on this disk.
Apart from this, using size=2 and min_size=1 is a really bad idea. This has nothing to do with data replication but rather with an inherent problem with high availability and the number 2. You need at least 3 members of an HA group to ensure stable operation with proper majorities. There are numerous stories about OSD flapping caused by size-2 min_size-1 pools, leading to situations that are extremely hard to recover from. My favourite is this one: https://blog.noc.grnet.gr/2016/10/18/surviving-a-ceph-cluster-outage-the-hard-way/ . You will easily find more. The deeper problem here is called "split-brain" and there is no real solution to it except to avoid it at all cost. Best regards, ================= Frank Schilder AIT Risø Campus Bygning 109, rum S14 ________________________________________ From: Florent B <flor...@coppint.com> Sent: 20 May 2019 21:33 To: Paul Emmerich; Frank Schilder Cc: ceph-users Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Default min_size value for EC pools I understand better thanks to Frank & Paul messages. Paul, when min_size=k, is it the same problem with replicated pool size=2 & min_size=1 ? On 20/05/2019 21:23, Paul Emmerich wrote: Yeah, the current situation with recovery and min_size is... unfortunate :( The reason why min_size = k is bad is just that it means you are accepting writes without guaranteeing durability while you are in a degraded state. A durable storage system should never tell a client "okay, i've written your data" if losing a single disk leads to data loss. Yes, that is the default behavior of traditional raid 5 and raid 6 systems during rebuild (with 1 or 2 disk failures for raid 5/6), but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Paul -- Paul Emmerich Looking for help with your Ceph cluster? Contact us at https://croit.io croit GmbH Freseniusstr. 31h 81247 München www.croit.io<http://www.croit.io> Tel: +49 89 1896585 90 _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
