As a short-term placeholder it should be fine. However, we all know how things designated short-term can tend to become less so. The real problem would occur when the smaller server gets filled up. In theory, gluster would drop into a read-only mode. In theory, there is no difference between practice in theory. In practice, there often is. -- Adam On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:11 AM, John Gardeniers <jgardeniers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Victor, > > Thanks for the response. Since writing my question we have been able to take > over another server, which does have enough drive space for this job, so > it's now merely an academic question. > > regards, > John > > > > On 15/06/15 12:51, Viktor Villafuerte wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> On Mon 15 Jun 2015 09:15:53, John Gardeniers wrote: >>> >>> We are/were running a simple 1x2 replica volume and have had a major >>> failure >>> on one of our gluster servers. We want to create a new replica, at least >>> for >>> the time being, but don't have another available server with sufficient >>> drive space. Working on the assumption that we will not increase the disk >>> usage, and will therefore not get anywhere near the capacity of the >>> smaller >>> server's drives, is it safe to create a replica using mismatched brick >>> sizes? Will gluster even allow that? >> >> I did bit of testing of this some time ago. Not with the lastest Gluster >> mind you... You can have different size bricks in a volume but you >> should always have the same size bricks in a replica. >> >> You say that there's enough space and no space will be consumed after >> etc and in theory this could work. But I wouldn't certainly recommend >> this kind of setup. >> >> >> v >> >> >>> regards, >>> John >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-users mailing list >>> Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
