[Gluster-users] Node count constraints with EC?

[Cedric Lemarchand]

> Le 29 mars 2017 à 20:29, Terry McGuire <tmcguire at ualberta.ca> a écrit :
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> I was thinking I’d spread these over 4 nodes, and add single nodes over time, with subvolumes rearranged over new nodes to maintain protection from whole node failures.

Also keep in mind that dispersed cluster can only be expanded by the number of initial nodes, eg starting with 4 nodes 3+1 can only evolve by adding 4 nodes 3+1, you cannot change the default policy 3+1 to 4+1. So the granularity of the evolution of the cluster is fixed at the beginning. 

Cheers