[Gluster-users] Add single server

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2017-05-01 19:50 GMT+02:00 Shyam <srangana at redhat.com>:
> Splitting the bricks need not be a post factum decision, we can start with
> larger brick counts, on a given node/disk count, and hence spread these
> bricks to newer nodes/bricks as they are added.
>
> If I understand the ceph PG count, it works on a similar notion, till the
> cluster grows beyond the initial PG count (set for the pool) at which point
> there is a lot more data movement (as the pg count has to be increased, and
> hence existing PGs need to be further partitioned)

Exactly.
Last time i've used ceph, the PGs worked in a similiar way.