On May 11, 2012 8:04 PM, "George Niculae" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hit this problem while setting up / testing 4.6 HA: in a setup with 2
> nodes you can select Distributed Database on both nodes (that means
> that each member will have its copy of data). In this case a mongo
> arbiter is needed to be used in primary elections in case of failure.
> By definition a mongo arbiter cannot contain data and it will never
> become the primary node
> (http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Adding+an+Arbiter). Now, the
> issue that I see (and signaled by QA as well) is when you setup
> something like:
> - node 1 set as Distributed Database & Database Arbiter
> - node 2 set as Distributed Database
> then after restarting node 1 it will become an arbiter (that is without
data)

Node 1 becomes an Arbiter?   That good because that is what you enabled on
it as well as a database.  So node one is a database and an arbiter.

> So even UI allows you to select this config and shows that you have 2
> Distributed Databases enabled (one of them being arbiter too) the
> reality is that you only have one Distributed Database (with copy of
> data) - node 2, and one arbiter - node 1, which is not what is
> expected IMO.
> Therefore I suggest to change UI and to make Distributed Database
> Arbiter and Distributed Database to exclude each other (that is when
> one selected the other one to automatically get unselected) and admin
> to be warned that in case of 2 nodes with 2 Distributed Databases the
> 3rd node to act as arbiter is needed.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> George
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