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I'm new to GlusterFS but it works really well for me as a distributed file system. I have a question about my setup and if I should use the partition I store the GlusterFS brick on for anything else. My setup looks like this.

Server 1: /external/array1/brick1/
Server 2: /external/array2/brick2/
Server 3: /external/array3/brick3/

I then used GlusterFS to make a distributed file system with each brick1,2,3 into one volume to mount.

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

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?

Thanks so much

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Please don't do that. While not required, you want to give GlusterFS bricks their own partition so that you can check their usage via a simple df -h.

To answer your question no, GlusterFS does not take into account other data in the same partition as its bricks.

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