<div dir="ltr">Hi Jose,<div><br></div><div>By switching into pure distribute volume you will lose availability if something goes bad.</div><div><br></div><div>I am guessing you have a nX2 volume.</div><div>If you want to preserve one copy of the data in all the distributes, you can do that by decreasing the replica count in the remove-brick operation.</div><div>If you have any inconsistency, heal them first using the "gluster volume heal <volname>" command and wait till the</div><div>"gluster volume heal <volname> info" output becomes zero, before removing the bricks, so that you will have the correct data.</div><div>If you do not want to preserve the data then you can directly remove the bricks.</div><div>Even after removing the bricks the data will be present in the backend of the removed bricks. You have to manually erase them (both data and .glusterfs folder).</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">See [1] for more details on remove-brick.<span> </span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1]. <a href="https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Managing%20Volumes/#shrinking-volumes">https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Managing%20Volumes/#shrinking-volumes</a></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Karthik</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Jose Sanchez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josesanc@carc.unm.edu" target="_blank">josesanc@carc.unm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>We have a Gluster setup with 2 nodes (distributed replication) and we would like to switch it to the distributed mode. I know the data is duplicated between those nodes, what is the proper way of switching it to a distributed, we would like to double or gain the storage space on our gluster storage node. what happens with the data, do i need to erase one of the nodes? </div><div><br></div><div>Jose</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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