Hi, I have an environment consisting of 4 nodes ( with large disks). I have to create a volume to contain image of virtual machines.
In documentation i read: *Hosting virtual machine images requires the consistency of three-way replication, which is provided by three-way replicated volumes, three-way distributed replicated volumes, arbitrated replicated volumes, and distributed arbitrated replicated volumes. * So I'm going to confusion to configure this volume. I have 4 nodes and I don't want to lose space by dedicating one to the function of arbiter. Would it be reasonable to configure the volume as in these two examples? # gluster volume create test1 replica 3 \ server1:/bricks/brick1 server2:/bricks/brick1 server3:/bricks/brick1 \ server2:/bricks/brick2 server3:/bricks/brick2 server4:/bricks/brick2 \ server3:/bricks/brick3 server4:/bricks/brick3 server1:/bricks/brick3 \ server4:/bricks/brick4 server1:/bricks/brick4 server2:/bricks/brick4 # gluster volume create test1 replica 3 arbiter 1 \ server1:/bricks/brick1 server2:/bricks/brick1 server3:/bricks/arbiter_brick1 \ server2:/bricks/brick2 server3:/bricks/brick2 server4:/bricks/arbiter_brick2 \ server3:/bricks/brick3 server4:/bricks/brick3 server1:/bricks/arbiter_brick3 \ server4:/bricks/brick4 server1:/bricks/brick4 server2:/bricks/arbiter_brick4 Thanks, -- *Cristian Del Carlo*
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