<div dir="ltr">With arbiter volume you still have a replica 3 volume, meaning that you have three participants in your quorum. But only two of those participants keep the actual data. Third one, the arbiter, stores only some metadata, not the files content, so data is not replicated 3 times.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:33 PM, FERNANDO FREDIANI <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fernando.frediani@upx.com" target="_blank">fernando.frediani@upx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>But then quorum doesn't replicate data 3 times, does it ?</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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FERNANDO FREDIANI <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fernando.frediani@upx.com" target="_blank">fernando.frediani@upx.com</a>></span>
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people in general use more replica 3 than replica 2 ? </div>
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<div>The answer is simple - quorum. With just two
participants you don't know what to do, when your peer is
unreachable. When you have three participants, you are
able to establish a majority. In that case, when two
partiticipants are able to communicate, they now, that
lesser part of cluster knows, that it should not accept
any changes.<br>
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<p>If I understand correctly this seems overkill and
waste of storage as 2 copies of data (replica 2)
seems pretty reasonable similar to RAID 1 and still in
the worst case the data can be replicated after a
fail. I see that replica 3 helps more on performance
at the cost of space.</p>
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You are absolutely right. You need two copies of data to
provide data redundancy and you need three (or more) members
in cluster to provide distinguishable majority. Therefore we
have arbiter volumes, thus solving that issue [1]. <br>
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[1] <a href="https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/arbiter-volumes-and-quorum/" target="_blank">https://gluster.readthedocs.<wbr>io/en/latest/Administrator%<wbr>20Guide/arbiter-volumes-and-<wbr>quorum/</a><br>
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