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Initially I have had 3 directories in both servers, like:
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I never perform any rebalance or fix layout, because never needed.
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Now that 2 directories are nearly full, this situation comes up!
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Is there any impact, if I took too long to perform a rebalance?
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Honestly, I never know if a rebalance is needed when adding new bricks.
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This should be in the gluster add-brick command output, something like this: You'll need to rebalance of fix the layout of you volume, after add-brick.
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