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<body>When a file should be moved based on its dht hash mapping but the target that it should be moved to has less free space than the origin, the rebalance command does not move the file and leaves the dht pointer in place. When you use "force", you override that behavior and always move each file regardless of free space.<br><br>In theory, eventually when the rebalance is finished you should end up with utilization mostly balanced but as the rebalance is processing you may end up in the state you show.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 27, 2020 7:32:16 AM PDT, Pat Haley <phaley@mit.edu> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>We have distributed gluster volume spread across 4 bricks.
Yesterday I noticed that the remaining space was uneven (about
2.7TB, 1.7TB, 1TB, 1TB) so I issued the following rebalance
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<li><code>gluster volume rebalance <VOLNAME> start force</code></li>
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<p>Today I see that instead, things have gotten even more unbalanced
(64G 853G 6.2T 20K). I'm killing the rebalance now. What should
I do to make sure that I get a successful rebalance?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Pat<code></code></p>
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