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| author | Ravishankar N <ravishankar@redhat.com> | 2015-05-05 10:07:13 +0530 |
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| committer | Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com> | 2015-05-05 02:27:57 -0700 |
| commit | b7da3d569dfa6d6c27480a74a345cf0e166e3fef (patch) | |
| tree | 7a377326a10e87bc8cacf751f552f103dc1c2d39 /doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_setting_volumes.md | |
| parent | 9ddea81a3b6f557c899c90ec84ac8463616e0bc5 (diff) | |
doc: AFR arbiter volume usage
Contains information on creation and behaviour of replica 3 arbiter volumes.
Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N <ravishankar@redhat.com>
Change-Id: I6af4aa3488649686fdb9b839c733046160e0785b
BUG: 1199985
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10541
Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_setting_volumes.md b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_setting_volumes.md index e58bb63ab23..d66a6894152 100644 --- a/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_setting_volumes.md +++ b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_setting_volumes.md @@ -266,6 +266,13 @@ high-availability and high-reliability are critical. > Use the `force` option at the end of command if you want to create the volume in this case. +###Arbiter configuration for replica volumes +Arbiter volumes are replica 3 volumes where the 3rd brick acts as the arbiter brick. This configuration has mechanisms that prevent occurrence of split-brains. +It can be created with the following command: +`# gluster volume create <VOLNAME> replica 3 arbiter 1 host1:brick1 host2:brick2 host3:brick3` +More information about this configuration can be found at `doc/features/afr-arbiter-volumes.md` +Note that the arbiter configuration for replica 3 can be used to create distributed-replicate volumes as well. + ##Creating Striped Volumes Striped volumes stripes data across bricks in the volume. For best |