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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m new to gluster administration, and am looking at a current gluster cluster…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a 6 node gluster cluster and a volume called cdparchive2 that is set to distributed replicated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My assumption was that it is set to distribute across the first 3 bricks, and that group of 3 bricks would replicate to the next three bricks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the output from gluster volume info cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">gluster volume info cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Volume Name: cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Type: Distributed-Replicate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Volume ID: 1e3fdd58-14fc-459b-817f-6c6612090ecd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Status: Started<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Number of Bricks: 3 x 2 = 6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Transport-type: tcp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bricks:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brick1: gluster07:/data/cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brick2: gluster08:/data/cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brick3: gluster09:/data/cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brick4: gluster10:/data/cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brick5: gluster11:/data/cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brick6: gluster12:/data/cdparchive2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So based on my assumptions/understanding, I thought it would distribute across nodes 7 8 and 9, and then replicate to 10, 11, 12.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But when I login to each gluster data node and du a du –sm on /data/cdparchive2 I see the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nodes 7 and 8 are the same size, nodes 9 and 10 are the same size, and nodes 11 and 12 are the same size.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So I guess that means its distributing to 7, 9 and 11, and replicating to 8, 10, and 12?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Going forward, how do I create a new distributed replicated volume that acts the way I assume, that is distributes across first 3 nodes, and then replicates to the next 3 nodes?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would that be <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp gluster071:/test1 gluster08:/test2 gluster09:/test3 gluster10:/test4 gluster11:/test5 gluster12:/test6?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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