Thanks John. I got your idea, raid at OS/HW level; But that means you will have two layer of duplication: Raid at HW level; And another replication at glusterfs level; Too much storage waste;
But anyway, yes, there is no such feature called spare disks in glusterfs volume set; Hope this is put into feature list :) On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:10 PM, John Hearns <[email protected]> wrote: > > ------------------------------ > > > 2. As sata disks fails often(relatively, when you got lots of disks...), > each time a disk fails, i will have to manually replace the disks, and > replace the bricks; > > Your disks should be part of a RAID set. (you choose the RAID level!) > If a disk fails, the RAID controller will keep the RAID running, and will > rebuild when a new disk is inserted. > Or you can have hot spare disks of course. > > But yes - unless you have a robot arm in the server room you will have > to manually change the failed disks! > > > > > > ***********************************Viglen*********************************** > Viglen Ltd, Registered in England No 1208441. Registered Office: 7, > Handley Page Way, Colney Street, St. Albans, Hertfordshire AL2 2DQ. > > Information in this electronic mail message is confidential and may be > legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this > message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended > recipient any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message is > prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our customers, any > information contained in this message is subject to Viglen Terms & > Conditions. Please rely on your own virus checker and procedures with > regard to any attachment to this message. > > ***********************************Viglen*********************************** > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- Regards Zhu Chao
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