Gluster users - Apr 2014 - Space balancing

Suppose one has a distributed non-replicated glusterfs file system where 
the bricks are subdirectories of real file systems, and the file systems 
also contain data outside of the brick directories. Never mind if this is 
a good idea or not; it's a thought experiment. Does glusterfs balance 
space allocation based on the size of data contained in the bricks, or in 
the file systems, or something else?

Steve

On 04/03/2014 09:17 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> Suppose one has a distributed non-replicated glusterfs file system where
> the bricks are subdirectories of real file systems, and the file systems
> also contain data outside of the brick directories. Never mind if this
> is a good idea or not; it's a thought experiment. Does glusterfs
balance
> space allocation based on the size of data contained in the bricks, or
> in the file systems, or something else?
DHT (distribution) is based solely on a hash of the file name.

There's no "balancing" in the current version.

Balancing based on file size and other criteria is on the roadmap for 
future releases.

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Kaleb