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| author | Kotresh HR <khiremat@redhat.com> | 2015-03-30 13:10:00 +0530 |
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| committer | Kaleb KEITHLEY <kkeithle@redhat.com> | 2015-03-31 13:42:31 -0700 |
| commit | f5e4c943cf520c6ec2df3c231fef9ae4116097b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 52ea93f2e9c9cfcbb6a62ddda16e330c8fc85172 /doc/admin-guide | |
| parent | 25f97b2788a33efcb0714ad639f8db380b864982 (diff) | |
doc/geo-rep: Documentation for management volume for geo-rep
Documented new changes to admin guide for setting up
geo-replication with the new active/passive switching
logic that comes with http://review.gluster.org/#/c/9759/
Change-Id: I47de9d2c1e678f7ad789f0ca2acf7ce67eb96c62
BUG: 1196632
Signed-off-by: Kotresh HR <khiremat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10043
Reviewed-by: Aravinda VK <avishwan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_distributed_geo_rep.md | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_distributed_geo_rep.md b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_distributed_geo_rep.md index c559f2cc306..ad44ed55ff8 100644 --- a/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_distributed_geo_rep.md +++ b/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_distributed_geo_rep.md @@ -44,6 +44,27 @@ gluster volume geo-replication <master_volume> <slave_host>::<slave_volume> crea ``` In this case the master node rsa-key distribution to slave node does not happen and above mentioned slave verification is not performed and these two things has to be taken care externaly. +### Configuring meta volume +A gluster meta volume needs to be configured with geo-replication to +better handle rename and other consistency issues in geo-replication during +brick/node down scenarios when master volume is configured with EC(Erasure Code)/AFR. +Following are the steps to configure meta volume + +Create a 3 way replicated meta volume in the master cluster with all three bricks from different nodes as follows. +```sh +gluster volume create <meta_vol> replica 3 <host1>:<brick_path> <host2>:<brick_path> <host3>:<brick_path> +``` + +Start the meta volume as follows. +```sh +gluster volume start <meta_vol> +``` + +Configure meta volume with geo-replication session as follows. +```sh +gluster volume geo-replication <master_volume> <slave_host>::<slave_volume> config meta_volume <meta_vol> +``` + #### Starting a geo-rep session There is no change in this command from previous versions to this version. ```sh |