[Gluster-users] Remove an artificial limitation of disperse volume

[Jeff Darcy]

----- Original Message -----
> Okay so the 4 nodes thing is a kind of exception? What about 8 nodes
> with redundancy 4?
> 
> I made a table to recap possible configurations, can you take a quick
> look and tell me if it's OK?
> 
> Here: https://gist.github.com/olivierlambert/8d530ac11b10dd8aac95749681f19d2c

As I understand it, the "power of two" thing is only about maximum
efficiency, and other values can work without wasting space (they'll
just be a bit slower).  So, for example, with 12 disks you would be
able to do 10+2 and get 83% space efficiency.  Xavier's the expert,
though, so it's probably best to let him clarify.