----- "Matt M" <misterdot at gmail.com> wrote: > If all the nodes are both client and servers, how many replicate > volumes should I have? I don't want a ton of replication traffic, but > redundancy is important. Maximizing the size of the volume is less > important to me since I'm just reclaiming otherwise unused local disk > space on the nodes. You can export /usr/local on each node, and then group two nodes each into a replicate volume to get 12 replicate volumes. You can then group these 12 into a single distribute volume, and mount this volume on all the 24 nodes. Vikas -- Engineer - http://gluster.com/