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    Technically that's unsupported and produces "unexpected behavior".
    In reality that unexpected behavior does exactly what you're asking,
    as long as it's the left-hand brick that contains the files.
    (left-hand as listed in the volume creation order).<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/26/2012 08:48 AM, Kushnir,
      Michael (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">If I start out my deployment as a 2-node
          replica set (later to grow to distributed-replicated), is it
          safe and proper to add brick #1 with data, and an empty brick
          #2? Will data be replicated to the empty brick, or am I asking
          for trouble?</p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Michael</p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">______________________________________________________________________________________</p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Michael Kushnir</p>
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          Communications</p>
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