<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 January 2017 at 19:26, Lindsay Mathieson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com" target="_blank">lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""></span>This I think, highlights one of glusters few weaknesses - the
inflexibility of brick layout. It would be really nice if you
could just arbitrarily add bricks to distributed-replicate volumes
and have files be evenly distributed among them as a whole. This
would work particularly well with sharded volumes. Unfortunately I
suspect this would need some sort of meta server.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Setups with arbiters especially. I know it's a relatively new feature still, however all of the tools for managing & manipulating dist-rep layouts are geared for standard bricks. It's very easy to accidentally convert your arbiters into full rep 3 bricks.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Luckily, most situations where you want to grow your cluster from a basic setup, you'll be converting to true rep 3 anyway.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">D<br></div></div></div>