On 04/19/2011 09:20 AM, Fyodor Ustinov wrote: > 1. Possible create new volume by 'gluster' command stripe and replica > simultaneously? This came up at my job recently too. I was surprised to find that, although the code and the volfile syntax both support this, the CLI syntax has no way to express it. > 2. File stored on glusterfs can not be greater size than the brick? Without striping, yes, the size of a file cannot be greater than the (remaining) size of a brick - or the smallest of all replica bricks if you're using replication. IMO this is one of the main reasons to use striping, since I've never seen it provide any performance benefit. > 3. I have two bricks of size 10G each. And 2 files of 4G each on one > brick. Perform glusterfs self-balancing and migrate one file to another > brick? I must/can do it "by hand"? It's probably better to let GlusterFS do the rebalancing if possible, but it might not work with very small numbers of files.
