[Gluster-devel] dht and disk space scheduling

Anand Avati avati at zresearch.com
Sat Jan 17 01:41:06 UTC 2009


> Just a quick question:
>
> Does dht handle subvolumes of differing sizes in an intelligent manner, or
> is it best to use subvolumes of identical sizes to avoid wasting space?

The design of dht allows for differing sizes, but the current version
of DHT uses static distribution. Adaptive scaling of the hash map
according to disk usage is on its way.

avati





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