Bug 839595 - Implement a server side quorum in glusterd
Summary: Implement a server side quorum in glusterd
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: GlusterFS
Classification: Community
Component: glusterd
Version: pre-release
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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high
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Assignee: Pranith Kumar K
QA Contact: SATHEESARAN
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Blocks: 840122 840818 858428 874018 895528
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Reported: 2012-07-12 12:02 UTC by Pranith Kumar K
Modified: 2014-02-28 21:57 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glusterfs-3.4.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 840122 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2013-07-24 17:22:54 UTC
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Description Pranith Kumar K 2012-07-12 12:02:40 UTC
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When the Glusterd is connected to less than half of the number of members in cluster, glusterd will kill the local bricks of the volumes on which the server side quorum is enabled. 

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Comment 1 Jeff Darcy 2012-10-31 21:12:44 UTC
Normally a new feature would have low severity, but the lack of this affects so many users that I'm bumping it up by two.

Comment 2 Vijay Bellur 2012-11-24 07:13:51 UTC
CHANGE: http://review.gluster.org/4162 (libglusterfs: Implement float percentage) merged in master by Vijay Bellur (vbellur)

Comment 3 Vijay Bellur 2012-11-24 07:15:02 UTC
CHANGE: http://review.gluster.org/3811 (mgmt/glusterd: Implementation of server-side quorum) merged in master by Vijay Bellur (vbellur)

Comment 4 Vijay Bellur 2012-11-24 07:27:50 UTC
CHANGE: http://review.gluster.org/4228 (tests: Add volume utils in a new file) merged in master by Vijay Bellur (vbellur)

Comment 5 Vijay Bellur 2012-11-24 07:28:07 UTC
CHANGE: http://review.gluster.org/4229 (tests: Add volume set tests for quorum) merged in master by Vijay Bellur (vbellur)

Comment 6 Vijay Bellur 2012-12-12 01:17:32 UTC
CHANGE: http://review.gluster.org/4291 (glusterd: Set op-version for quorum options) merged in master by Anand Avati (avati)

Comment 7 Aharon Canan 2013-12-23 15:45:27 UTC
hi

did someone verify that it really helps with the split-brains?

thanks.

Comment 8 SATHEESARAN 2013-12-24 12:48:18 UTC
Ah(In reply to Aharon Canan from comment #7)
> hi
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> did someone verify that it really helps with the split-brains?
> 
> thanks.

Yes, it does so.
I tested that with Red Hat Storage.
You can read more about this feature here : http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/Server-quorum


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