Gluster users - Mar 2014 - Different brick sizes in a volume

Hi,

I've been playing around with a 2x2 distributed replicated setup with 
replicating group 1 having a different brick size than replicating group 
2. I've been running into "out of disk" errors when the smaller 
replicating pair disks fill up. I know of the minimum free disk feature 
which should prevent this issue. My question is, are there features that 
allow gluster to smartly use different brick sizes so extra space on 
larger bricks do not go unused?

Thanks

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Greg Waite
System Administrator
Computing Group, JILA
University of Colorado-Boulder

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Greg Waite
<Greg.Waite at jila.colorado.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been playing around with a 2x2 distributed replicated setup with
> replicating group 1 having a different brick size than replicating group 2.
> I've been running into "out of disk" errors when the smaller
replicating
> pair disks fill up. I know of the minimum free disk feature which should
> prevent this issue. My question is, are there features that allow gluster
to
> smartly use different brick sizes so extra space on larger bricks do not go
> unused?
>
> Thanks

It looks like different sized bricks will be a core feature in 3.6
(coming soon).

Stay tuned! For now, don't run out of space :)