<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I’m new to GlusterFS and I had a very simple question about partitions:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial">My setup looks like this -</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px; word-wrap: normal; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit;"><font face="Arial">Server 1: /external/array1/brick1/
Server 2: /external/array2/brick2/
Server 3: /external/array3/brick3/
</font></code></pre><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial">I then used GlusterFS to make a distributed file system with each brick1,2,3 into one volume to mount.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial">My question is what happens to GlusterFS if I add something to array1,2,3 where the brick is stored. It is competing for space on the partition. For instance, say I have a constantly growing directory at /external/array1/growing_directory</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><font face="Arial">How would that effect GlusterFS distributed file system. Will it know how to shrink the brick due to the growing directory that is competing with space?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 17.8048000335693px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0;"><font face="Arial">thanks so much</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 17.8048000335693px;">PS. I have double posted on SO, but I don</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">’</span><span style="line-height: 17.8048000335693px;">t think that is the best place for it since there are only 32 questions about GlusterFS on the entire site. I don</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">’</span><span style="line-height: 17.8048000335693px;">t think it will be answered. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 17.8048000335693px;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 17.8048000335693px;"><br></span></font></p></div></body></html>