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authorraghavendra talur <raghavendra.talur@gmail.com>2015-08-20 15:09:31 +0530
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All new features specs go into in_progress directory. Once signed off, it should be moved to done directory. For now, This change moves all the Gluster 4.0 feature specs to in_progress. All other specs are under done/release-version. More cleanup required will be done incrementally. Change-Id: Id272d301ba8c434cbf7a9a966ceba05fe63b230d BUG: 1206539 Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Talur <rtalur@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/11969 Reviewed-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Prashanth Pai <ppai@redhat.com> Tested-by: Humble Devassy Chirammal <humble.devassy@gmail.com>
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-Feature
--------
-
-Support heterogeneous (different size) bricks.
-
-Summary
--------
-
-DHT is currently very naive about brick sizes, assigning equal "weight"
-to each brick/subvolume for purposes of placing new files even though
-the bricks might actually have different sizes. It would be better if
-DHT assigned greater weight (i.e. would create more files) on bricks
-with more total or free space.
-
-This proposal came out of a [mailing-list
-discussion](http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2014-January/038638.html)
-
-Owners
-------
-
-- Raghavendra G (rgowdapp@redhat.com)
-
-Current status
---------------
-
-There is a
-[script](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/extras/rebalance.py)
-representing much of the necessary logic, using DHT's "custom layout"
-feature and other tricks.
-
-The most basic kind of heterogeneous-brick-friendly rebalancing has been
-implemented. [patch](http://review.gluster.org/#/c/8020/)
-
-Detailed Description
---------------------
-
-There should be (at least) three options:
-
-- Assign subvolume weights based on **total** space.
-
-- Assign subvolume weights based on **free** space.
-
-- Assign all (or nearly all) weight to specific subvolumes.
-
-The last option is useful for those who expand a volume by adding bricks
-and intend to let the system "rebalance automatically" by directing new
-files to the new bricks, without migrating any old data. Once the
-appropriate weights have been calculated, the rebalance command should
-apply the results recursively to all directories within the volume
-(except those with custom layouts) and DHT should assign layouts to new
-directories in accordance with the same weights.
-
-Benefit to GlusterFS
---------------------
-
-Better support for adding new bricks that are a different size than the
-old, which is common as disk capacity tends to improve with each
-generation (as noted in the ML discussion).
-
-Better support for adding capacity without an expensive (data-migrating)
-rebalance operation.
-
-Scope
------
-
-This will involve changes to all current rebalance code - CLI, glusterd,
-DHT, and probably others.
-
-### Implications on manageability
-
-New CLI options.
-
-### Implications on presentation layer
-
-None.
-
-### Implications on persistence layer
-
-None.
-
-### Implications on 'GlusterFS' backend
-
-None, unless we want to add a "policy" xattr on the root inode to be
-consulted when new directories are created (could also be done via
-translator options).
-
-### Modification to GlusterFS metadata
-
-Same as previous.
-
-### Implications on 'glusterd'
-
-New fields in rebalance-related RPCs.
-
-How To Test
------------
-
-For each policy:
-
-1. Create a volume with small bricks (ramdisk-based if need be).
-
-1. Fill the bricks to varying degrees.
-
-1. (optional) Add more empty bricks.
-
-1. Rebalance using the target policy.
-
-1. Create some dozens/hundreds of new files.
-
-1. Verify that the distribution of new files matches what is expected
- for the given policy.
-
-User Experience
----------------
-
-New options for the "rebalance" command.
-
-Dependencies
-------------
-
-None.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-TBD
-
-Status
-------
-
-Original author has abandoned this change. If anyone else wants to make
-a \*positive\* contribution to fix a long-standing user concern, feel
-free.
-
-Comments and Discussion
------------------------