On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:31:46AM -0400, Felipe Torres wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Gluster stripped replicated for a project in the University, but > I have some doubts about it. I have searched over the internet but there is > little information about this. > > I am using a 2 stripped 2 replica, with 4 bricks. > > Must I have a pair number of bricks? Can I choose where I want the replica > of the files? If I want to add a brick how is the data distributed? must I > add 2 bricks at a time? and if I take one brick off, what will happen? > > I hope this is the right place for my doubts, if not please point me in the > right direction. Instead of striping, you most likely want to use distribute. The combination of distribute-replicate is more common. The following blog post contains a nice explanation on the difference between stripe and distribute: - http://joejulian.name/blog/should-i-use-stripe-on-glusterfs/ HTH, Niels _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
