Hi James, Distribute hashes files based on the names, and not file sizes. It looks like in your case, most of the files hash to the same brick. Rebalance would not help you, as rebalance only moves files from non-hashed subvolume to hashed subvolumes. You might try to add bricks, and issue rebalance, to better distribute your data. With regards, Shishir ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Kahn" <jkahn at idea11.com.au> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 2:19:32 PM Subject: Bricks not rebalancing I have a two brick distributed volume (single host) that has become significantly lopsided between bricks. One brick has 1.8TB allocated and the other only has 500GB allocated. Most of the files are very large. I'm trying to rebalance between bricks and gluster isn't doing anything. Any ideas on how to fix this? gluster> volume status storage1 detail Status of volume: storage1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Brick : Brick abc2.xx.com:/exports/exp1 Port : 24013 Online : Y Pid : 1553 File System : xfs Device : /dev/xvdb1 Mount Options : rw,inode64 Inode Size : 256 Disk Space Free : 179.6GB Total Disk Space : 2.0TB Inode Count : 419429824 Free Inodes : 419428942 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Brick : Brick abc2.xx:/exports/exp2 Port : 24014 Online : Y Pid : 1559 File System : xfs Device : /dev/xvdc1 Mount Options : rw,inode64 Inode Size : 256 Disk Space Free : 1.5TB Total Disk Space : 2.0TB Inode Count : 419429824 Free Inodes : 419429032 gluster> volume rebalance storage1 start Starting rebalance on volume storage1 has been successful gluster> volume rebalance storage1 status Node Rebalanced-files size scanned failures status --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ localhost 0 0 262 0 completed Thanks. _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users