On 22 October 2012 14:57, Tao Lin <linbaiye at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hi, dear glfs experts:
> I've been using glusterfs (version 3.2.6) for months,so far it works
very
> well.Now I'm facing a problem of adding two new bricks to an existed
> replicated (rep=2) volume,which is consisted of only two bricks and is
> mounted by multiple clients.Can I just use the following commands to add
new
> bricks without stopping the services which is using the volume as motioned?
> 1?gluster peer probe new-node1
> 2?gluster peer probe new-node2
> 3?gluster volume add-brick VOLNAME new-brick1 new-brick2
> 4?gluster volume rebalance VOLNAME fix-layout start
> 5?gluster volume rebalance VOLNAME migrate-data start
> Is there something I missed? Thanks a lot.
I haven't tried that but it seems OK. Just keep in mind that your new
volume won't be replicated but distributed replicated.
Regards,
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Bartek Krawczyk
network and system administrator