----- Original Message ----- > There has been discussion in the past about improvement in the way glusterfs > handles unequal components in a distribute, for instance unequal size brick > pairs in a distribute/replicate cluster. Has this happened and I missed it? > I don't see this listed as a feature in any of the new glusterfs releases > nor in the the proposes improvements in glusterfs 3.6. Perhaps it occured > under some other name? When one wants to add space to an old cluster or > replace dead disks the sweet spot in the size of disks usually will have > increased from the size used when the cluster was first built. I can see > that > one would want to have the bricks making up a replicate to be the same size > but > for distribute components it is inefficient to have to divide a big new disk > into a numerous small bricks.
This would be an excellent addition to the 3.6 feature list. I've done some work in this area before, so I'll write up the feature proposal. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
