I may add to that that i have expanded linux filesystems (xfs and ext4)
both via LVM and some by adding disks to a hardware raid. from the OS
point of view it does not make a difference, the procedure once the
block device on which the filesytem resides is expanded is prettymuch
the same and so far always worked like a charm.
one word of caution though: i've just recently had a case with a raid 6
across 12 disks (1TB, a 5 year old RAID array) where during a planned
power outage a disk failed, when turnging the storage back on, a second
failed right after that and the third failed during rebuild. luckily
this was a retired server used for backup only, so no harm done.. but
this just shows us, that under the "ritght" circumstances, multi disk
failures are possible. the more disks you have in your raidset the
higher the chance of a disk failure.. by doubling the amount of disks in
your raidset you double the chance of a disk failure and therefore a
double or tripple disk failure as well.
long story short.. i'd consider creating a second raid acorss your 12
new disks and adding this as a second brick to gluster storage.. that's
what gluster's for after all .. to scale your storage :) in the case of
raid 6 you will loose the capacity of two disks but you will gain alot
in terms of redundancy and dataprotection.
also you will not have the performance impact of the raid expansion..
this is usually a rather long process which will eat a lot of your
performance while it's ongoing.
of course, if you have mirrored bricks, that's a different story, but i
assume you don't.
cheers
Pascal
On 26.04.19 05:35, Jim Kinney wrote:
I've expanded bricks using lvm and there was no problems at all with
gluster seeing the change. The expansion was performed basically
simultaneously on both existing bricks of a replica. I would expect
the raid expansion to behave similarly.
On April 25, 2019 9:05:45 PM EDT, Pat Haley <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Last summer we added a new brick to our gluster volume (running
glusterfs 3.7.11). The new brick was a new server with with 12 of 24
disk bays filled (we couldn't afford to fill them all at the time).
These 12 disks are managed in a hardware RAID-6. We have recently been
able to purchase another 12 disks. We would like to just add these new
disks to the existing hardware RAID and thus expand the size of the
brick. If we can successfully add them to the hardware RAID like this,
will gluster have any problems with the expanded brick size?
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