<html><head></head><body>So then, in theory my plan could work if I always rebalance.<br><br>Thanks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 March 2021 17:12:07 GMT, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg@yahoo.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
As gluster does not have metadata server, the client:s identify the brick via a special algorithm based on the file/dir name.<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1616173862631"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1616173863114">Each brick corresponds to a 'range' of hashes , thus when you add a new brick, you always need to rebalance the volume.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1616173909131"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1616173909347">Best Regards,</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1616173913899">Strahil Nikolov<br> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div dir="ltr">Hello,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">A while ago I attempted and failed to maintain an "evergrowing" storage <br></div><div dir="ltr">solution based on GlusterFS.<br></div><div dir="ltr">I was relying on a distributed non-replicated volume to host backups and <br></div><div dir="ltr">so on, in the idea that when it was close to full I would just add <br></div><div dir="ltr">another brick (server) and keep it going like that.<br></div><div dir="ltr">In reality what happened was that many of the writes were distributed to <br></div><div dir="ltr">the brick that was (in time) full, ending up with "out of space" errors, <br></div><div dir="ltr">despite having one or more bricks with plenty of space.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Can anyone advise whether current Glusterfs behaviour has improved in <br></div><div dir="ltr">this regard, ie does it check if a brick is full and redirect the <br></div><div dir="ltr">"write" to one that is not?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,<br></div><div dir="ltr">Lucian<br></div><div dir="ltr">________<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Community Meeting Calendar:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Schedule -<br></div><div dir="ltr">Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC<br></div><div dir="ltr">Bridge: <a href="https://meet.google.com/cpu-eiue-hvk" target="_blank">https://meet.google.com/cpu-eiue-hvk</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Gluster-users mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" target="_blank">https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><br></div> </div> </blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>