Hi Mark, On 28 December 2017 at 23:56, Mark Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a 10x2 distributed replica volume running gluster3.8. > Each of my bricks is about 60TB in size. ( 6TB drives Raid 6 10+2 ) > > I am running of storage so I intend on adding servers with larger 8Tb > drives. > My new bricks will be 80TB in size. I will make sure the replica to the > larger brick will match in size. > > Will gluster place more files on the larger bricks? Or will I have wasted > space? > Yes, it will. Gluster will use the sizes of the bricks when calculating the layout distribution if cluster.weighted-rebalance is enabled. There was a bug [1] which was fixed in 3.8.5 so anything newer than that should work. On a different note, I am looking into improving Gluster documentation so where would you like to see this information in the guides? Regards, Nithya [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374135 > In other words will the 80TB new bricks ever exceed 60TB? > > -Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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