On 22 October 2012 14:57, Tao Lin <linbaiye at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, dear glfs experts: > I've been using glusterfs (version 3.2.6) for months,so far it works very > well.Now I'm facing a problem of adding two new bricks to an existed > replicated (rep=2) volume,which is consisted of only two bricks and is > mounted by multiple clients.Can I just use the following commands to add new > bricks without stopping the services which is using the volume as motioned? > 1?gluster peer probe new-node1 > 2?gluster peer probe new-node2 > 3?gluster volume add-brick VOLNAME new-brick1 new-brick2 > 4?gluster volume rebalance VOLNAME fix-layout start > 5?gluster volume rebalance VOLNAME migrate-data start > Is there something I missed? Thanks a lot. I haven't tried that but it seems OK. Just keep in mind that your new volume won't be replicated but distributed replicated. Regards, -- Bartek Krawczyk network and system administrator