Anselm - You can remove a brick online, you can't change the type of an existing volume, if you could explain what you what to do with a 'merge' and a 'split' I could give you a better answer, you can 'split' a volume by moving half the data to another volume and 'merge' data by copying all the data from one volume to another, is that what you want to do? Parity based storage in a distributed file system is difficult for several reasons, we are currently investigating some possibilities with erasure coding and will keep everyone up to date on our progress. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster From: "Anselm Strauss" <amsibamsi at gmail.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:56:03 AM Subject: Online operations Hi, I have done some testing with glusterfs on the localhost. I was wondering what all operations you can do online with a glusterfs volume. Is it possible to remove a brick and shrink the volume without taking some data offline? Like a pvmove in Linux LVM that moves all data off a disk before you take it offline? Are the following operations possible to do online? - Change between mirroring and striping - Change the mirror or stripe count - Merge two volumes - Split a volume into two Is there a plan for supporting other redundancy levels that mirror, e.g. RAID 5, 6, ...? Thanks for any ideas, Anselm Strauss _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
