<div dir="ltr">Hi Mark,<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 December 2017 at 23:56, Mark Connor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markconnor64@gmail.com" target="_blank">markconnor64@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have a 10x2 distributed replica volume running gluster3.8. </div><div>Each of my bricks is about 60TB in size. ( 6TB drives Raid 6 10+2 ) </div><div><br></div><div>I am running of storage so I intend on adding servers with larger 8Tb drives.</div><div>My new bricks will be 80TB in size. I will make sure the replica to the larger brick will match in size. </div><div><br></div><div>Will gluster place more files on the larger bricks? Or will I have wasted space?</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Yes, it will. Gluster will use the sizes of the bricks when calculating the layout distribution if cluster.weighted-rebalance is enabled. </div><div>There was a bug [1] which was fixed in 3.8.5 so anything newer than that should work.</div><div><br></div><div>On a different note, I am looking into improving Gluster documentation so where would you like to see this information in the guides?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Nithya</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374135">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374135</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>In other words will the 80TB new bricks ever exceed 60TB? </div><span class="gmail-m_-2880636888537733579HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Mark</div></font></span></div>
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