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

[Olivier Lambert]

Yep, but if I hit a 30% penalty, I don't want that :) Any idea of the
perf impact? I'll probably contact Xavier directly if he's not here!

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Jeff Darcy <jdarcy at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Okay so the 4 nodes thing is a kind of exception? What about 8 nodes
>> with redundancy 4?
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>> I made a table to recap possible configurations, can you take a quick
>> look and tell me if it's OK?
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>> Here: https://gist.github.com/olivierlambert/8d530ac11b10dd8aac95749681f19d2c
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> 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.