Hello Andreas,
we are testing stripe 2 replica 3 arbiter 1 gluster volume, it's running, but not supported by 
Ovirt 3.5.6.2 ( can't create 'storage" , with "unsupported" message )
This is running in 5 node gluster. Node 5 dedicated only for arbiter bricks and has no 
"big disks".

exam:
gluster volume create AAAA stripe 2 replica 3 arbiter 1  \
brick1_data:/replica1/GFS  brick2_data:/replica1/GFS 
brick5_arbiter:/replica1/GFS   \
brick3_data:/replica2/GFS  brick5_data:/replica2/GFS 
brick5_arbiter:/replica2/GFS

Arbiter node hold only metadata and is common for all volumes. Can run VMs ( 
data over interconnect )


pbauer
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:26:53 +0530
From: Ravishankar N<[email protected]>
To:[email protected], gluster-users<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Automatic arbiter volumes on
        distributed/replicated volumes with replica 2?
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On 03/24/2016 04:30 PM, Andr? Bauer wrote:

So if you have a 4 node cluster is it realy needed to have a third
replica? Imho the 2 of the nodes could also be used as arbiters?

I'm not sure I understand. The 'arbiter' volume is a special type of
replica volume where the 3rd brick of that replica (for every replica)
only holds metadata. So if you're asking if this brick itself can be
co-located on a node which holds the other 'data' bricks of the volume,
then yes that is possible.
-Ravi

Does it make sense to open a feature request in the bugtracker?

Regards
Andr?

Am 24.03.2016 um 11:02 schrieb Ravishankar N:
On 03/24/2016 02:39 PM, Andr? Bauer wrote:
Hi List,

we just upgraded out 4 node cluster from 3.5.8 to 3.7.8.

Because of replica 2 on all volumes i run into problems with read only
file systems of vm images when running on 3.5.x. As i know now the
solution would be to have replica 3 or at least use arbiter volumes.

Yesterday i stumbled over this post in the list which i missed before
(damn spam filter):

https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-November/024191.html

Steve Dainard is pointing out that 3.7.x uses an automatic arbiter, when
you have 4 nodes configured as distributed/replicated.

Is this true? Could not find something about it in the documentation :-/
There is no 'automatic' arbiter for replica 2. I think he was referring
to the dummy node peer probed for maintaining server quorum.
-Ravi
Would be nice i could save on having 2 more nodes this way.

If not, is there a chance to see such feature in the future?


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