Il 12 nov 2016 12:53, "Kevin Lemonnier" <lemonni...@ulrar.net> ha scritto: > Sure, but thinking about it later we realised that it might be for the better. > I believe when sharding is enabled the shards will be dispersed across all the > replica sets, making it that losing a replica set will kill all your VMs. > > Imagine a 16x3 volume for example, losing 2 bricks could bring the whole thing > down if they happen to be in the same replica set. (I might be wrong about the > way gluster disperse shards, it's my understanding only, never had the chance > to test it). > With multiple small clusters, we have the same disk space in the end but not > that problem, it's a bit more annoying to manage but for now that's allright.
I don't use EC because i really love the "gluster feature" to have plain files stored and not encoded in any way. > Not really shocked there. Guess the cli should warn you when you try re-setting > the option though, that would be nice. Exactly. I've proposed a warning in the cli when changing the shard size but this is still unfixed and this is scaring me it's a critical bug, IMHO, and should be addressed asap or any user could destroy the whole cluster with a simple command and no warning at all.
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