[Gluster-users] Expand distributed replicated volume

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2016-07-12 12:34 GMT+02:00 Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu at redhat.com>:
> If you add 6 new disks to the cluster by bringing in a new node with replica
> count 3 you are essentially are adding 2 replica sets. Since you can't have
> replica sets with bricks from same node, we need to get empty bricks from
> other nodes which require replace-brick operation.

If I replace existing bricks, i'm not adding free space but only move
data around.