Hi Ramos, You can try looking into replace-brick option.
With that, you don't need to add and them remove bricks (as you are trying to phase out existing bricks). With regards, Shishir ----- Original Message ----- From: "ron ramos" <[email protected]> To: "gluster-users" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 1:38:51 PM Subject: [Gluster-users] increasing capacity Hi All, My disks are running out of space and need to increase, would it be possible if i add a new disk. then add it as a new brick. then once all the files are synched i can remove the old brick? i am currently running a replicated volumes on 2 servers. e.g. mygluster volume has: Brick1: server1:/glusterdisk1 Brick2: server2:/glusterdisk2 i will add 2 new bricks Brick3: server1:/newglusterdisk1 Brick4: server2:/newglusterdisk2 once brick3 and brick4 are synched. i will remove Brick1 and Brick2. is this the proper way? any other better way? Regards, Ron _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
