On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 10:50 AM Patrick Lomakin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey, everybody. I have 3 hosts on which Gluster replica 3 volume called
> “engine” is deployed. When I try to put 2 of the 3 hosts into maintenance
> mode, my deployment crashes. I originally expected that with replica 3 I
> could shut down 2 of the hosts and everything would work. However, I saw
> that the default for Gluster is quorum server not allowing more than one
> host to be disabled. But even after disabling the quorum and verifying that
> the Gluster disk is available with one host enabled, Hosted Engine still
> does not access the storage. Who can explain me then the point of using
> replica 3 if I can't disable 2 hosts and is there any way to fix this
> behavior?
> _______________________________________________
>

Hello,

Using Gluster with one of 3 hosts will most likely trigger a split brain
situation. Don't do it.
If I needed to shutdown two hosts to do some critical maintenance, I'd
simply backup the storage to a 3'rd party single host machine, and shutdown
the cluster completely.

- Gilboa



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