On 10/28/2014 1:51 PM, John G. Heim wrote: > I want to shrink a gluster 3.2 volume. I've been reading the > documentation at: > http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Shrinking_Volumes > > > Something that is unclear on this document is whether I will lose data > if I follow those instructions. If I do a remove-brick and then > rebalance, is the data copied off the removed brick to another brick? > > Reading between the lines, I am thinking that I can remove the brick and > then manually copy the data to another brick and then rebalance. If you follow those precise instructions, you will indeed lose data. You probably need to upgrade to at least version 3.3 before you can follow these instructions instead: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.0/html/Administration_Guide/sect-User_Guide-Managing_Volumes-Shrinking.html When I did this on my 3.3 testbed, I discovered that the removal process uses far more disk space than it should, although the extra space is recovered at the end of the process. I filed a bug for this problem in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862347 Thanks, Shawn _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
