[Gluster-users] Reconstructing files from shards

Fri Apr 27 22:34:12 UTC 2018

> On Apr 26, 2018, at 9:00 PM, Krutika Dhananjay <kdhananj at redhat.com> wrote:

> But anway, why is copying data into new unsharded volume disruptive for you?

The copy itself isn't; blowing away the existing volume and recreating it is.

That is for the usual reasons - storage on the cluster machines is not infinite, the cluster serves a purpose that humans rely on, downtime is expensive.

-j