Healing gets slower as you increase m in m+n configuration. We are using 16+4 configuration without any problems other then heal speed. I tested heal speed with 8+2 and 16+4 on 3.9.0 and see that heals on 8+2 is faster by 2x. On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Ashish Pandey <aspandey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 8+2 and 8+3 configurations are not the limitation but just suggestions. > You can create 16+3 volume without any issue. > > Ashish > > ________________________________ > From: "Alastair Neil" <ajneil.tech@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 2:23:32 AM > Subject: disperse volume brick counts limits in RHES > > > Hi > > we are deploying a large (24node/45brick) cluster and noted that the RHES > guidelines limit the number of data bricks in a disperse set to 8. Is there > any reason for this. I am aware that you want this to be a power of 2, but > as we have a large number of nodes we were planning on going with 16+3. > Dropping to 8+2 or 8+3 will be a real waste for us. > > Thanks, > > > Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users