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<div class="gmail-gE gmail-iv gmail-gt" style="padding:20px 0px 0px;font-size:12.8px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm working to convert my 3x3 arbiter replicated volume into a disperse volume, however I have to work with the existing disks, maybe adding another 1 or 2 new disks if necessary. I'm hoping to destroy the bricks on one of the replicated nodes and build it into a </span><br></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div id="gmail-:1ms" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:12.8px;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:1mr" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH" style="overflow:hidden;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm opting to host this volume on a set of controllers connected to a common backplane, I don't need help on this config, just on the constraints of the disperse volumes.</div><div><div><br></div><div>I have some questions about the disperse functionality</div><div>1. If I create a 1 redundancy volume in the beginning, after I add more bricks, can I increase redundancy to 2 or 3</div><div>2. If I create the original volume with 6TB bricks, am I really stuck with 6TB bricks even if I add 2 or more 10TB bricks</div><div>3. Is it required to extend a volume by the same number or bricks it was created with? If the original volume is made with 3 bricks, do I have to always add capacity in 3 brick increments?</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>