[Gluster-users] shrinking a volume

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Tue Oct 28 19:51:44 UTC 2014


I want to shrink a gluster 3.2 volume. I've been reading the 
documentation at:
http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Shrinking_Volumes

Something that is unclear on this document is whether I will lose data 
if I follow those instructions. If I do a remove-brick and then 
rebalance, is the data copied off the removed brick to another brick?

Reading between the lines, I am thinking that I can remove the brick and 
then manually copy the data to another brick and then rebalance.


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