From e104285386125fa364cb897a8df883999ee1c62d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ravishankar N Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 10:07:13 +0530 Subject: doc: AFR arbiter volume usage Backport of http://review.gluster.org/#/c/10541/ Contains information on creation and behaviour of replica 3 arbiter volumes. Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N Change-Id: I6af4aa3488649686fdb9b839c733046160e0785b BUG: 1217689 Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10542 Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal Tested-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal --- doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_setting_volumes.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/admin-guide/en-US') 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 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 -- cgit