[Gluster-users] How do I increase volume space on a gluster disperse volume

[Serkan Çoban]

>Is it like
>Gluster volume add-brick pdsclust raid1-gb:/data/gfs raid2-gb:/data/gfs raid3-gb:/data/gfs raid5-gb:/data/gfs raid6-gb:/data/gfs raid7-gb:/data/gfs

Yes the command is like that.

> Besides, Can I have different size of the brick? Such as raid1,2,3 is 20 TB and raid5,6,7 is 40TB?
You don't want to do that, 20TB from 40TB is wasted. Bricks should be same size.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Leung, Alex (398C)
<alex.leung at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Thanks, but what is the exact command to add-brick?
>
> volume add-brick <VOLNAME> [<stripe|replica> <COUNT>] <NEW-BRICK> ...
>
> Is it like
>
> Gluster volume add-brick pdsclust raid1-gb:/data/gfs raid2-gb:/data/gfs raid3-gb:/data/gfs raid5-gb:/data/gfs raid6-gb:/data/gfs raid7-gb:/data/gfs
> What is the value of > [<stripe|replica> <COUNT>]?
>
> Besides, Can I have different size of the brick? Such as raid1,2,3 is 20 TB and raid5,6,7 is 40TB?
>
>
> Alex Leung
>
> On 10/10/16, 7:17 AM, "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Leung, Alex (398C)
>     <alex.leung at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>     > Here is my configuration:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > [root at raid4 ~]# gluster volume info
>     >
>     > Volume Name: pdsclust
>     >
>     > Type: Disperse
>     >
>     > Volume ID: 02629f52-cfe1-4542-8581-21d25e254d39
>     >
>     > Status: Started
>     >
>     > Number of Bricks: 1 x (4 + 2) = 6
>     >
>     > Transport-type: tcp
>     >
>     > Bricks:
>     >
>     > Brick1: raid4-gb:/data/gfs
>     >
>     > Brick2: raid8-gb:/data/gfs
>     >
>     > Brick3: raid10-gb:/data/gfs
>     >
>     > Brick4: raid12-gb:/data/gfs
>     >
>     > Brick5: raid14-gb:/data/gfs
>     >
>     > Brick6: raid16-gb:/data/gfs
>     >
>     > Options Reconfigured:
>     >
>     > performance.readdir-ahead: on
>     >
>     > [root at raid4 ~]#
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > How do add-bricks to this disperse volume?
>     >
>     > How do I create a sub volume of (4+2) = 6 to make it
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Number of Bricks: 2 x (4 + 2) = 12
>
>
>     You would need to add 6 more bricks to the volume to get to this state.
>
>     Regards,
>     Vijay
>
>
>
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