If you're truly not concerned about the replication overhead the balance is
going to require the minimal amount of data movement if you just remove and
re-add the devices in their new zone with a single rebalance and ring-push.
That may or may not be a good idea to recommend depending on how much
Thanks John,
Yes, I’ve read this article, but thanks for pointing me at it again.
/ross
On Aug 22, 2014, at 2:29 PM, John Dickinson wrote:
> You've actually identified the issues involved. Here's a writeup on how you
> can do it, and the general best-practice for capacity management in Swift:
You've actually identified the issues involved. Here's a writeup on how you can
do it, and the general best-practice for capacity management in Swift:
https://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/04/09/swift-capacity-management/
--John
On Aug 22, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Lillie Ross-CDSR11
wrote:
> All,
>
All,
I want to reconfigure a number of disks in my Swift storage cluster to reside
in different zones, and I’m unsure of the best way to accomplish this.
One way would be to set the drive weights to 0 and wait for data to migrate off
the drives, then remove the drive from their current zone and
