On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 12:04:17PM -0700, Joe Julian wrote: > On 05/07/2015 11:15 AM, Jeff Darcy wrote: > >Last week, those of us who were together in Bangalore had a meeting to > >discuss the GlusterFS 4.0 plan. Once we'd covered what's already in > >the plan[1] we had a very productive brainstorming session on what else > >we might want to consider adding. Here are some of my notes, in no > >particular order, for discussion either here on the list or in person at > >the upcoming Barcelona summit. > > ... > >* Hot-spare nodes/bricks > > -1 From what I've seen, most users are against spending money on hardware > that's not being used. An auto-rebalance, or some such mechanism, to ensure > redundancy after a failure would be much more welcome. Actually, hot-spares (bricks or nodes) is quite a common question/request that I got from users who spoke to me at conferences. Something like an auto-rebalance would definitely be useful too. I guess the same detect-failure-and-fix framework would be used to make a (configurable?) decision to do a rebalance or replace-brick. Niels
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