This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --rkOk7SUlOX6I5tCrr6nXdCjW1e49G1hP9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04.09.15 10:02, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
Is there a reason why it has to be exactly replica 3?
To have a valid quorum having the system being able to decide witch is the right and safe copy avoiding an issue called split brain. Under certain circumstances/issues (network issue, hosts down or whatever could happen) the data on different replica could diverge: if you have two and just two different hosts that claim each other
that its
copy is the right one there is no way to automatically take the right decision. Having three hosts and setting the quorum according to that solves/mitigates the issue.
Thanks for the explanation. I do understand the problem but since I'm somewhat limited in my hardware options is there a way to override this requirement? Meaning if I change the checks for replica 3 in the installation scripts does something else fail on the way? In my case coherence checks would come from outside the storage and vm host setup and fencing would be applied appropriately. I would very much appreciate it if the particulars of the storage setup could be either selected from a list of possibilities or be ignored and just a warning be issued that this setup is not recommended. Thanks! Richard --=20 /dev/null --rkOk7SUlOX6I5tCrr6nXdCjW1e49G1hP9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlXv6nYACgkQnGohgOrO9GHXogCgwshYj4KLmuVucmc+UG5404au 2A8AnRfQFKGVJOcm9arkrz6snEttd0DN =C0cn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rkOk7SUlOX6I5tCrr6nXdCjW1e49G1hP9--