This seems to have helped, thanks. On Nov 19, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Amar Tumballi wrote: >> What's the best way to add bricks, and get distribute to use them? I >> added 2 more bricks, and the total size increased for the filesystem, >> but i can't get any traffic on the new disks. I remounted the >> filesystem, and ran an ls -Rl , but i still don't see any traffic to >> the disks. I do see that the file tree was created on the new disks. > > Currently there is no 'hot' add feature which will take care of the > addition of new bricks. To achieve the proper distribution, you need > to force 'distribute' self heal by removing the extended attribute on > the directories. > > Try running this: > > bash# find /mnt/glusterfs -type d -exec setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.dht {} \; > > (Note that this works for versions 2.0.8 or higher). > > Regards,