I have been involved in various discussions about this in the past year or so. I summarised my findings in a reply to the following thread in March. http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2012-March/009827.html -Dan. On 04/22/2012 08:00 PM, gluster-users-request at gluster.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:41:22 +0100 > From: Wipe_Out<wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Brick sizes > To: gluster-users at gluster.org > Message-ID: > <CAJEk6a_zUVhZFZs7zLEgmnyKw+3xXxJCrCs3U+bHUj3nXYTakQ at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Is it a requirement that bricks are similar sizes?