Thanks Tejas. If an actual example of the glusterfs.vol was available showing this setup was available, that would be a valuable sanity check against what I will build.
James Burnash, Unix Engineering T. 201-239-2248 [email protected] | www.knight.com 545 Washington Ave. | Jersey City, NJ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tejas N. Bhise Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:26 PM To: Gluster General Discussion List Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Mirror volumes with odd number of servers James, You can do that, but you will have to hand craft the volume file. volgen looks for even numbers as you have already noticed. With hand crafting of volume files, you can even have a replicate distribute .. so e.g. 2 copies of file, and each replicate node of the graph can have a differing number of distribute servers under it. something like this can be done to have a replica count of two with 5 servers... | R1 |----------R1D1 mount--- |-----------|----------R1D2 | | R2 |-----------R2D1 |-----------|-----------R2D2 |-----------R2D3 The design of translators is so modular that they can be used in any combination. This however used to lead to confusion and hence we developed volgen that produced easy to use and default best-fit configuration. >From the perspective of "official" support, we typically only support configs >that volgen produces. For other configs, we do fix the bugs, but how fast >depends on the config and translator seeing the bug. Let me know if you have more questions about this. Regards, Tejas Bhise. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Burnash" <[email protected]> To: "Gluster General Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:41:02 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Mirror volumes with odd number of servers Carl - could you possibly provide an example of a configuration using an odd number of servers? glusterfs-volgen is unhappy when you don't give an even number. Thanks! James Burnash, Unix Engineering T. 201-239-2248 [email protected] | www.knight.com 545 Washington Ave. | Jersey City, NJ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Carl Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:16 AM To: Gluster General Discussion List Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Mirror volumes with odd number of servers Brock - It is completely possible using Gluster File System. We haven't exposed that option via the Gluster Storage Platform GUI yet. Craig -- Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - [email protected] From: "brock brown" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:51:19 PM Subject: [Gluster-users] Mirror volumes with odd number of servers All the documentation refers to using multiples of 2 when setting up mirrored volumes. Also the Gluster Storage Platform will not allow it. Is this impossible and if so why? Thanks, Brock _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users DISCLAIMER: This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please immediately notify me and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. NOTICE REGARDING PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY Knight Capital Group may, at its discretion, monitor and review the content of all e-mail communications. http://www.knight.com _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
