Anselm Strauss wrote: > hi, > > although there is a related section in the documentation of gluster 3.3, > i do not see this really working. removing a brick will just remove data > on a brick which is not what i want. and migrating means replacing the > brick with a new one which does not result in a shrunken volume. > > is there a way to shrink a volume online without loosing any data in the > means of reducing the number of bricks a volume is distributed over? try remove-brick start option $ gluster volume remove-brick volname brick1 start this will redistribute the data from brick1 to the remaining bricks once it's completed then commit it. $ gluster volume remove-brick volname brick1 commit this removes the brick1 from the volume. > > anselm > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
