Thank you. This is the main new feature I care about in glusterfs (except, of course, stability). --- Bill Sebok On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 05:41:28PM -0500, Jeffrey Darcy wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > There has been discussion in the past about improvement in the way glusterfs > > handles unequal components in a distribute, for instance unequal size brick > > pairs in a distribute/replicate cluster. Has this happened and I missed it? > > I don't see this listed as a feature in any of the new glusterfs releases > > nor in the the proposes improvements in glusterfs 3.6. Perhaps it occured > > under some other name? When one wants to add space to an old cluster or > > replace dead disks the sweet spot in the size of disks usually will have > > increased from the size used when the cluster was first built. I can see > > that > > one would want to have the bricks making up a replicate to be the same size > > but > > for distribute components it is inefficient to have to divide a big new disk > > into a numerous small bricks. > > This would be an excellent addition to the 3.6 feature list. I've done some > work in this area before, so I'll write up the feature proposal. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
