[Gluster-users] balancing redundancy with space utilization

[Tom Lahti]

Currently it would seem that AFR will simply copy everything to every 
brick in the AFR.  If I did something like ...

volume afr-example
   type cluster/afr
   subvolumes brick1 brick2 brick3 brick4 brick5 brick6 brick7 brick8
end-volume

I would wind up with 8 copies of every file.  Clearly, this is too many. 
  What I would rather have is maybe 3 copies of each file distributed 
randomly across 3 servers, so that I could still have 2 servers fail and 
  have all data available, but without using up unnecessary space on the 
other 5.  The 3 would need to be round-robined in some manner so as to 
distribute the disk utilization.  First file goes on brick1 brick2 
brick3, 2nd file goes on brick2 brick3 brick4, etc.

It seems that AFR used to have this with "option relicate *:3" but that 
was removed.  The supposed replacement for that, the switch scheduler, 
doesn't really have the same functionality.

Unless there is a undocumented form of the "option switch.case" 
statement that I have yet to see.  Can I do "option switch.case *:3" or 
some such?

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