Anselm -
You can remove a brick online, you can't change the type of an existing
volume, if you could explain what you what to do with a 'merge' and a
'split' I could give you a better answer, you can 'split' a
volume by moving half the data to another volume and 'merge' data by
copying all the data from one volume to another, is that what you want to do?
Parity based storage in a distributed file system is difficult for several
reasons, we are currently investigating some possibilities with erasure coding
and will keep everyone up to date on our progress.
Thanks,
Craig
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Craig Carl
Senior Systems Engineer
Gluster
From: "Anselm Strauss" <amsibamsi at gmail.com>
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:56:03 AM
Subject: [Gluster-users] Online operations
Hi,
I have done some testing with glusterfs on the localhost. I was
wondering what all operations you can do online with a glusterfs volume.
Is it possible to remove a brick and shrink the volume without taking
some data offline? Like a pvmove in Linux LVM that moves all data off a
disk before you take it offline?
Are the following operations possible to do online?
- Change between mirroring and striping
- Change the mirror or stripe count
- Merge two volumes
- Split a volume into two
Is there a plan for supporting other redundancy levels that mirror, e.g.
RAID 5, 6, ...?
Thanks for any ideas,
Anselm Strauss
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