AFAIK, There is no method to redistribute your already stored files except copy out then copy in again. -----Original Message----- From: Hiren Joshi [mailto:josh at moonfruit.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:52 PM To: Vikas Gorur Cc: Kirby Zhou; gluster-users at gluster.org Subject: RE: DHT with AFR > -----Original Message----- > From: Vikas Gorur [mailto:vikas at gluster.com] > Sent: 15 July 2009 09:01 > To: Hiren Joshi > Cc: Kirby Zhou; gluster-users at gluster.org > Subject: Re: DHT with AFR > > > ----- "Hiren Joshi" <josh at moonfruit.com> wrote: > > > My thinking is both on the client so: > > I AFR my nodes. > > I then DHT my AFR bricks. > > I then mount the DHT vols. > > > > Or would I get better performance the other way around? > > DHT over AFR'd pairs is the configuration you want. You can > then add another AFR pair whenever you want to scale up. When I add another pair, is there a way of re-distributing the data evenly? Will this have a big performance hit? > > Vikas > -- > Engineer - Gluster >