[Gluster-users] Add single server

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2017-05-01 20:22 GMT+02:00 Shyam <srangana at redhat.com>:
> Brick splitting (I think was first proposed by Jeff Darcy) is to create more
> bricks out of given storage backends. IOW, instead of using a given brick as
> is, create sub-dirs and use them as bricks.
>
> Hence, given 2 local FS end points by the user (say), instead of creating a
> 1x2 volume, create a nx2 volume, with n sub-dirs within the given local FS
> end points as the bricks themselves.
>
> Hence, this gives us n units to work with than just one, helping with issues
> like +1 scaling, among others.

So, with just one disk, you'll be able to do some replacement like
Joe's solution
for adding a single brick regardless the replica count