Hi, we're currently searching for a way to move bricks between (physical) nodes without copying all data. Background: We have physical nodes with a connected external disk-enclosure which contains 5 bricks of 8 drives in raid-6 each (total of 40 drives and about 220 TB after RAID). If this physical node has a longer lasting hardware failure or needs replacement I want to connect this enclosure to a different physical node to quickly re-enable access to this huge amount of data. If I'm right there's no "native" way to relocate bricks by simply renaming them in the layout. I was thinking about giving each brick a dedicated hostname and IP so that I can move hostname,ip and brick freely between all servers. A physical node containing Brick A to E so would have 6 hostnames & IPs: physA 192.168.0.1 brickA 192.168.0.2 brickB 192.168.0.3 brickC 192.168.0.4 brickD 192.168.0.5 brickE 192.168.0.6 If I want to move brickE to physB I would simply move the IP + Storage to this physical node ... Any downside? Better Ideas? Would this work? Am I missing something? -- Kind regards Michael Metz-Martini _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
